Welcome to the Workshop!

This in-depth, hands-on workshop quickly teaches production-level skills to craft code on any platform that supports TI Microcontrollers (MCUs) and takes you from zero to fluent in two days, saving weeks or months of development time.

This workshop replaces time-consuming trial and error with accelerated learning that makes it easy to craft your application with confidence and competence.

Your Access to This Workshop

Your purchase of this workshop provides you with individual access. All course content, including your login access, is for your individual use only and may not be copied, shared, or redistributed in any way, including selling, forwarding, distributing, or sharing with any other person(s) or companies. Any commercial usage or any reselling or distributing of course access or content in any manner or type of format is strictly prohibited and is a violation of copyright law as well as the terms and conditions of enrollment.

How to Get Support

For questions related to our content (solutions, videos, labs), email us or post a comment on the relevant video. For extensive live or on-site consulting by the hour or day, please contact us.

Public "Preview" Chapters

For those wanting to review our coursework before purchase, please look for the publicly available chapters. The list of PREVIEW chapters may change, but here are the currently available chapters:

• Chapter 0, Lectures 0-5 and "CCS version Notice"
• Chapter 4, Lectures 0 and 1
• Workshop Version History (at the bottom of the curriculum list

What You Need To Complete This Workshop

To complete this workshop, you need:

• A computer or laptop
• The LaunchPad/EVM (specified in the Workshop Datasheet)
• TI Code Composer Studio (CCS)
• The Software Development Kit (SDK) provided by TI for your target device. (The supported SDK versions are listed in the Workshop Datasheet.)

Some MCU architectures may require:

• Jumper Wire - You can use any jumper wire. We purchased our jumper wire from Adafruit (Female-to-female jumper wire).

Jumper wires are used to virtually create an "extra" LED. Or may be used to create a virtual Push Button. In both cases, the jumper is used to overcome limitations in the hardware target board.

Chapter 1 explains how to load all the software tools and libraries and connect to your hardware.

Downloading PDF Files

Whether you like to use your own PDF viewer, or prefer to print the step-by-step Lab Instruction guides, you can download them for your own use. There is a small download LINK (hidden) below each PDF document.

Please let us know if you find the "download" link missing for PDF files.

CCS vs CCS

In late 2024, TI made significant changes to Code Composer Studio (CCS) while releasing CCS version 20.

The baseline IDE has been migrated from Eclipse to Theia. While TI has supported Theia builds for a couple of years, the new IDE was merged into mainline "CCS".

Unfortunately, not all TI MCU architectures are supported in the new CCS v20. Those not using CCS v20 are still supported by CCS v12.8.1.

Check out our NOTICE topic for more on this change.

Workshop Versions

Version Log

We log all the workshop modifications in a dedicated section of this site. Checkout the section called: Workshop Version History

Errata Updates

Minor updates are modified in-place. How can you tell if an item has been modified?

• Lab Solution Files: The "Getting_Started_with_TI_Microcontrollers_readme" (HTML, PDF or MD) documents provide the version history of the lab solution files.
• Lab Guide: The cover page of each step-by-step lab guide provides the version number as well as the date it was edited. The date is changed for each minor revision.
• Videos: Videos are changed less frequently. Any major changes will be highlighted in the course information or in the video's description.

This topic is also discussed in the 0.4 Workshop Details video.