Open source IDE available for MSP430 microcontrollers

30 November 2005 Design Automation

Texas Instruments' first open-source integrated development environment (IDE), Code Composer Essentials (CCEssentials) is an IDE for its MSP430 family of ultra-low power microcontrollers. Based on the 'Eclipse' open source platform, CCEssentials allows designers and third parties to integrate updates and plug-ins to provide a highly customised and flexibleIDE.

"The popularity of the MSP430 made it important for us to offer a robust IDE with the highest code density directly from TI," said Mark Buccini, Advanced Embedded Controllers marketing director. "Developers can now leverage the benefits of open source tools with the added advantage of MSP430-specific optimisation to make development extremely efficient and intuitive enough for users to get started in less than 30 minutes."

The CCEssentials IDE features an intuitive interface, one-click debug option, and TI compiler and code generation technology that allows users to start programming almost immediately.

The Eclipse open source development platform (see www.eclipse.org) offers developers the freedom of choice in tool integration, software modelling and testing in a multilanguage, platform and vendor environment. Eclipse provides customisable tools and a plug-in based framework for designers and third parties that simplifies the creation and integration of software tools from various sources to reduce development time and money. The large community of developers allows users to access continual upgrades and extensions, and modify tools to suit individual needs through bug fix contributions and complementary product integrations like source code editors and unified modelling language (UML) design tools.

CCEssentials IDE for MSP430 microcontrollers will be available for free and includes an 8 Kbyte C compiler and unlimited assembler. CCEssentials Pro IDE features unlimited C and assembly code space and is not free.

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