I recently bought an ARM based microcontroller from Texas Instruments (MSP432P401R). However I found out too late that it is not a in a Dual In-line Package and so I cannot use it on a breadboard. What do I do in order to use it on a breadboard?
Additionally, can I use USBASP to program this microcontroller?
You do not. You buy the development board, in your case the MSP-EXP432P401R, and you use wires to the breadboard.
Or you buy a development board you can breadboard, mbed has some.
Putting this category of chips on a breadboard gives you a deluxe package of problems, if you are going that way, you'd better start funding this website.
You program that chip with an SWD or JTAG programmer. Like Segger, ULink or with the upper part of the MSP-EXP432P401R development board. It has an XDS110 debugger on board.
For this kind of problem, you typically use a breakout board.
A 100 pin breakout board is not a very nice thing though, especially if you want to go to DIP.
So something like this:
You have to be careful to select the correct footprint, as there are quite a few variations around with different pin pitch.
Note that these adapters might cause problems because of their non matched length of the lines and maybe long lines on the supply pins.
I don't know the details of the USBASP, but the short description reads:
USBasp is a USB in-circuit programmer for Atmel AVR controllers.
As you have a TI MSP432, a Cortex M4F at heart, I'd say: No you cannot use it.
