The MSP430L092 device was designed first and foremost with a focus on the MSP430 truly operating at the 0.9 V to 1.5 V range. With no charge pump in the picture, there is no power efficiency lost. The CPU and memory operating at the low voltage range also results in less power consumption as previously explained. The key idea behind 0.9V being that a single-cell battery’s lifetime is determined by the cutoff voltage of 0.9 V. By allowing the MSP430L092 device to work down at this range, the user will be able to squeeze the last bit of available energy from the single-cell battery. A special bit of information to note here is that the flash technology is not a practical choice for low voltage operation, hence the optimized memory solution is to use RAM and ROM for the L092 family, specifically, the variant with the RAM only memory can be used during development or prototyping and ones moving on to production when the firmware is finalized; it can be stored into the ROM mask in the ROM variant of the MSP430C092 for mass production. The second key aspect of the MSP430L092 is its high performance analog functions. The L092 introduces a brand new highly integrated and highly flexible analog module. The new analog peripheral allows for most analog manipulation and sampling that a given application may require. Some of the functions that the Analog Pool provides include a comparator, a low power, 256 mV voltage reference, an 8-bit analog to digital converter, a built-in supply voltage monitor, and many more. By providing all of these functionalities in such a small device, TI enables users to design applications that could not have materialized before. This presentation will discuss the key features of the Analog Pool in detail in the following section. The L092 nonetheless is still a true MSP430 microcontroller. It still fully embraces the MSP430 DNA, being the lowest power MCU in the industry, and even exceeds the previous families by achieving the new lowest active power number for an MSP430. Using the same MSP430 core with 16-bit RISC architecture, the L092 is code compatible with previous families. The MSP430 is traditionally known for extremely high performance analog, for sensor interfacing applications, and this obviously holds true for the L092 with the addition of the previously mentioned Analog Pool. Equipped with the best features of MSP430, the L092 fits nicely in a wide range of applications, and now in the new low voltage realm. The MSP430L092 comes in a single 14-pin TSOP package. With a small package and tiny footprint, the L092 really packs in a multitude of features and functionalities.