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SLAU597E–March 2015–Revised January 2018
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MSP432P401R SimpleLink™ Microcontroller LaunchPad™ Development Kit
(MSP
‑
EXP432P401R)
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1 Getting Started
1.1 Introduction
The SimpleLink MSP‑EXP432P401R LaunchPad development kit is an easy-to-use evaluation module for
the MSP432P401R microcontroller. It contains everything needed to start developing on the MSP432 Low-
Power + Performance ARM 32-bit Cortex-M4F microcontroller (MCU), including onboard debug probe for
programming, debugging, and energy measurements. The MSP432P401R microcontroller supports low-
power applications that require increased CPU speed, memory, analog, and 32-bit performance.
Rapid prototyping is simplified by access to the 40-pin headers and a wide variety of BoosterPack™ plug-
in modules that enable technologies such as wireless connectivity, graphical displays, environmental
sensing, and many more. Free software development tools are also available such as TI's Eclipse-based
Code Composer Studio™ IDE, IAR Embedded Workbench™ IDE, and Keil
®
µVision
®
IDE. Code
Composer Studio IDE supports EnergyTrace™ technology when paired with the MSP432P401R
LaunchPad development kit. More information about the LaunchPad development kit, the supported
BoosterPack plug-in modules, and the available resources can be found at TI's LaunchPad development
kit portal. To get started quickly and find available resources in the SimpleLink MSP432 software
development kit (SDK), visit the TI Cloud Development Environment.