14.1(h) - Serial Communication on the MSP430: The UART - Transmitting a Character to the Terminal

[@Xevion]

Really great tutorial for learning UART. Very helpful while getting my MSP430FR2355 working.

[@omartusson]

Great video as usual. Thank you very much.

[@HirilPatelhexagonal]

Thank you for such detailed description. can you advice me on a question here?
I am recieving sampled data from ADS1220 chip from 3 channel sequentially via spi in MSP430f5529 Mcu but when I try to forward that value to serial port via UART to see it in Maltab I get "ñ/ c ó Ó/ " 
p/ ] ‰ -/ A ‘ ¿/ ˆ ä &/ " note that I am using "/" to seperate transactions. But my question is is there a way to send Hex value via uart?
Thank you

[@Project-f7b]

Why does the code not work?
#include
//MSP430F5358
int main(void)
{
WDTCTL = WDTPW | WDTHOLD; // stop watchdog timer
P5DIR |= BIT3;//LED 4
//--setup UART A2
UCA2CTLW0 |= UCSWRST; // software reset UCA2CTL0 |= UCSWRST; |= set bit
UCA2CTLW0 |= UCSSEL__SMCLK; //choose SMCLK=BRCLK (115200 baud)
UCA2BRW = 8; // prescalar = 8
UCA2MCTL = 0xD6; // OS16=low freq, set modulation
P9SEL &= ~BIT3; // change P4.3 function to A1 UART Tx
P9SEL |= BIT3;
PM5CTL0 &= ~LOCKLPM5; // turn on io
UCA2CTLW0 &= ~UCSWRST; // out of software reset UCA2CTL0 |= UCSWRST; &= ~ clear a bit
int i;
while (1)
{
P5OUT ^= BIT3;//LED 4 // Toggle the pin (XOR operation)
__delay_cycles(100000);// Add a delay to observe the toggling
UCA2TXBUF = 'A'; // transmits ASCII code for 'A' over UART
for(i=0; i