1 What is the width in bits of the MSP430 CPU What size are

1. What is the width (in bits) of the MSP430 CPU? What size are the CPU registers?

2. What is the size of an integer on this µC? What is the size of a long int?

3. How much RAM does the CPU have? (This is the memory where your program stores its variables.)

4. The FLASH memory stores your program. Like flash drive, it is non-volatile. The µC runs the program stored in its FLASH memory when you apply power or reset. How much FLASH memory does your version of the MSP430 have? NOTE: MSP430f55438

Solution

Ans(1.) MSP430 CPU easily described by a von Neumann architecture with a single address space for instructions and data.The memory is byte addressed, and pairs of the bytes are combinedlittle-endian that is to make CPU WIDTH 16-bit words and the size of CPU processors contains 16-bit registers,  of which 4 them are dedicated to special purposes.