- 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
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
