The Texas Instruments MSP series MCU programmer and debugger is a powerful emulation development tool, also called as a debug probe. It allows users to quickly begin application development on MSP low-power microcontrollers (MCU). This has an USB interface to the computer, while the 14-pin connector provides access to the MSP debug emulation port – which consists of either a standard JTAG interface or by using the pin-saving Spy-Bi-Wire (2-wire JTAG) protocol.

USB debugging interface to connect any MSP430 MCU to a computer for real-time, in-system programming and debugging
Supports tri-state mode to show “accurate” EnergyTrace power numbers
Up to 4x faster read/write speeds than the previous version of the FET programmer
Enables EnergyTrace technology for energy measurement and debugging on all MSP430 and MSP432 devices in the Code Composer Studio and IAR Embedded Workbench development environments