The driver assumes that timer A and timer B have the same register
layout regarding all the features exposed by the driver. This is
backed by the MCU family datasheets for the MSP430 x1xx and the
MSP430 G2xx / F2xx MCUs (and likely more families).
The assert() is pretty limited in coverage, but more to document why
a "timer A clear" mask is used but still claiming the driver also
works for timer B. It just looks too much like a bug otherwise.
- add support for multiple timers
- add support for selecting clock source in the board's `periph_conf.h`
- add support for the prescaler
- implement `periph_timer_query_freqs`
- add a second timer to all MSP430 boards
- the first timer is fast ticking, high-power
- the second is slow ticking, low-power
The MSP430 vendor files already provide macros containing register
constants and symbols (provided via linker scripts) containing addresses
of peripheral registers. So lets make use of that rather than
maintaining a long list of constants.
RIOT supports two distinct families of the MSP430: The [MSP430 x1xx]
MCU family and the [MSP430 F2xx/G2xx] MCU family. For both incompatible
MCU families the code was located in the msp430fxyz folder, resulting
in case of the UART driver in particularly bizarre code looking roughly
like this:
#ifndef UART_USE_USCI
/* implementation of x1xx peripheral ... */
#else
/* implementation of F2xx/G2xx peripheral ... */
#endif
/* zero shared code between both variants */
This splits the peripheral drivers for USCI and USART serial IP blocks
into separate files and relocates everything in cpu/msp430, similar to
how cpu/stm32 is organized.
[MSP430 x1xx]: https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/slau049f/slau049f.pdf
[MSP430 F2xx/G2xx]: https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/slau144k/slau144k.pdf
