The MSP430F2274-EP is Texas Instruments first extended temperature Ultra-Low-Power Mixed Signal Microcontroller. The MSP430F2274-EP is designed specifically for ultra-low-power applications. A flexible clocking system, multiple operations modes and zero-power always on brown-out reset (BOR) are implemented to reduce power consumption and dramatically extend battery life. The MSP430 BOR function is always active, even in all low-power modes to ensure the most reliable performance possible.

The MSP430 CPU architecture with 16 registers and 16-bit data and address buses minimize power consuming fetches to memory and fast vectored-interrupt structure reduces the need for wasteful CPU software flag polling. Intelligent hardware peripheral features were also designed to allow tasks to be completed more efficiently and independent of the CPU.

Applications: Hand-held military devices requiring low power Avionics Industrial Control and monitoring equipment High temperature electronics Metering equipment
	MSP430 von-Neumann architecture – all program/data memory/ peripherals share a common bus structure. Consistent CPU instructions and addressing modes are used.