[NatureTM] used part of the Thanksgiving holiday to get composite video output working with an MSP430 microcontroller ... because of the relatively small code memory and RAM.

There are dozens of different ARM cores alone, hundreds of 8051 clones, and weirder stuff including the Cypress PSoC and TI’s MSP430. Which one is best? Which microcontroller that costs under a ...

Foremost is debugging. Also, many of the examples in TI's application notes are written in assembly language. In any case the MSP430 is not complicated. The CPU has only 27 instructions, most of which ...