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[slow_rider]

Hello,

I'm used to work with Atmel MCUs and I want to check out TI's MSP products. It seems to me that there is very little info available from TI regarding development tools and such. Getting started with AVRs was easy... AVRStudio + AVR-GCC + AVR Libc. In simple terms, what is the equivalent in TI's world?

[leon_heller]

TI supplies free (limited) versions of the IAR and CCS tools. I use Rowley CrossWorks.

[slow_rider]

Is there any popular open source IDE (with full debugging support) widely used? Also, are people using the GCC compiler?

[leon_heller]

There is mspgcc:

http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/

I used it a long time ago, but it's rather old and probably won't work with many of the current devices. Try the msp430 Yahoo group if you have any questions about it, but I don't think that many people use it.

[slow_rider]

Thanks for the info. So it seems like IAR is the standard package here?

[leon_heller]

I prefer the Rowley IDE to the IAR one.

[stevech]

I prefer/use IAR after extensive eval of Keil, Rowley/GCC, Eclipse/Yagarto/GCC and Imagecraft.

IAR's phone support is superb and California based, though I've not needed it much.

IAR and Keil have 32KB limited free versions for non-commercial use.