Electronics - MSP430 - Restoring the default software

Once you've received your MSP430 board, you couldn't stop playing with it, clicking on every button, downloading all software you could find.

But at a moment, you said to yourself: "Eh, how can I do to restore the default software?"

That's what we're going to see in this tutorial to restore the demo default software.

With IAR Embedded Workbench IDE

Go where you installed your IAR IDE.

For example, let's assume this location:

• D:\soft\mcu\iar\ewmsp430

In the following path, you could certainly find a directory of your board:

• D:\soft\mcu\iar\ewmsp430\430\examples\examples\Hardware boards

My board is a MSP430 LaunchPad MSP-EXP430G2 and what I have to do is to open this MSP-EXP430G2 directory.

Inside there is another MSP-EXP430G2 directory, let's open it to find what we are looking for:

• workspace.eww

Double click it, and your IAR IDE should open the workspace to compile and load the default software in your board.

Conclusion

The default software was hidden, but we succeeded in finding it.
Good job, you've just restored the default software in your MSP430 board!