The course has been composed for any student who has elementary knowledge in the field of electrical engineering and programming and wish to gain basic practical skills of utilization of microcontrollers MSP430. The course briefly discusses basic design features of microcontrollers MSP430 in the context of various architectures of microprocessors, microcontrollers and peripheral devices. The most significant part of the course is devoted to the programming of MSP430 – including the programming of digital I/O, watchdog and arithmetical operations. The course is based on practical studies and assumes active individual training of the students in the laboratory or at home.