Serial to USB chip solution

If you need to transmit at higher baudrates to transfer data faster, you will need to connect the MSP430 through a USB to serial (UART) converter. There are many converter solutions, and you can certainly find complete cables, but many of these are based on two devices which are very popular:

• FT232RL and similar devices from FTDI chip are a complete USB to UART solution that integrates the EEPROM and oscillators. Basically with one chip and a few external passives you can have reliable UART communications.
• CP210x from Silicon Labs (Silabs) is another popular device that provides a USB to UART bridge. A few of the devices are also highly integrated

Both of these solutions are easy to use and their drivers are simple and widely available. They can easily support over 1Mbaud.

These two solutions also have mobile or embedded system driver support.

Reference from http://www.argenox.com/library/msp430/msp430-uart-peripheral-chapter-8/