MSP ez430 2013 writing chars to USB port

[ptdropper]

I am using the ez430 2013 as a Cub Scout Pinwood Derby race track
timer and it is able to use interrupts to determine cars in first,
second, and third place by getting data from three IR phot0
transistors.  That all works well.  This is not a real embedded
application since I am taking advantage of the USB port and the IAR
debug environment to get me the data from the 2013 device. It is
running the program in the IAR debugger and I was manually reading the
debug output window results and then manually taking that data over to
another program which manages the race car results.
This year I have both the IAR and MSP GCC compilers. I would like to
use either one to send the results data out the USB port to my laptop.
I can post process the data into the format for the race car manager
program in the necessary format. I just need 3 pieces of info for each
race which is the lane number and it's finish number, so a pair of
integers. I don't know how to handle getting data out of the 2013 and
over to some port on the PC. Anyone have some ideas?

Thanks
Rob

[old_cow_yellow]

While the target is under the control of IAR debugger, there is a way
to open and write a file to the PC. Search the old posts and you may
find it.

--- In msp430@..., "ptdropper" <ptdropper@...> wrote:

>
> I am using the ez430 2013 as a Cub Scout Pinwood Derby race track
> timer and it is able to use interrupts to determine cars in first,
> second, and third place by getting data from three IR phot0
> transistors.  That all works well.  This is not a real embedded
> application since I am taking advantage of the USB port and the IAR
> debug environment to get me the data from the 2013 device. It is
> running the program in the IAR debugger and I was manually reading the
> debug output window results and then manually taking that data over to
> another program which manages the race car results.
> This year I have both the IAR and MSP GCC compilers. I would like to
> use either one to send the results data out the USB port to my laptop.
> I can post process the data into the format for the race car manager
> program in the necessary format. I just need 3 pieces of info for each
> race which is the lane number and it's finish number, so a pair of
> integers. I don't know how to handle getting data out of the 2013 and
> over to some port on the PC. Anyone have some ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>

[old_cow_yellow]

See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/msp430/message/30526

--- In msp430@..., "old_cow_yellow" <old_cow_yellow@...>
wrote:

>
> While the target is under the control of IAR debugger, there is a way
> to open and write a file to the PC. Search the old posts and you may
> find it.
>
> --- In msp430@..., "ptdropper" <ptdropper@> wrote:
> >
> > I am using the ez430 2013 as a Cub Scout Pinwood Derby race track
> > timer and it is able to use interrupts to determine cars in first,
> > second, and third place by getting data from three IR phot0
> > transistors.  That all works well.  This is not a real embedded
> > application since I am taking advantage of the USB port and the IAR
> > debug environment to get me the data from the 2013 device. It is
> > running the program in the IAR debugger and I was manually reading the
> > debug output window results and then manually taking that data over to
> > another program which manages the race car results.
> > This year I have both the IAR and MSP GCC compilers. I would like to
> > use either one to send the results data out the USB port to my laptop.
> > I can post process the data into the format for the race car manager
> > program in the necessary format. I just need 3 pieces of info for each
> > race which is the lane number and it's finish number, so a pair of
> > integers. I don't know how to handle getting data out of the 2013 and
> > over to some port on the PC. Anyone have some ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rob
> >
>