In this class, you will be working with two boards: the Launchpad and the BoosterPack. It is important to be able to distinguish which components belong to which parts of the microcontroller. Knowing their locations will make it easier to locate the correct guide when you want to look at a particular peripheral and figure out how to use it.

A simple first step is to see which peripherals can be physically seen and which are more "abstract" to a degree. If you can see the peripheral, then it is either on the Launchpad or on the BoosterPack. Otherwise, if it is something more obscure, the MSP432 likely contains it.

The Launchpad contains:

• The MSP432 chip

• The debugger chip

• The microUSB port

• The reset button

• Two push buttons

• One single-color and one tri-color LED

• Connector to the BoosterPack

The BoosterPack contains:

• The display

• The buzzer

• The microphone

• The joystick

• The accelerometer

• The tri-color LED

• Two buttons

• The light sensor

• The temperature sensor

• Connector to the Launchpad

The MSP432 contains:

• The processor core (ARM)

• The UART peripheral

• The I2C peripheral

• The SPI peripheral

• The GPIO

• The Timer_32

• The Timer_A

• The watchdog timer

• The interrupt controller

• The A/D