Two main dev tools: CCS (which is TI's) and Energia (which is not).
Energia is based on the Arduino IDE. They've translated or recompiled all the Arduino libraries to run on the MSP. So. Use Energia if you want to code Ardunio-style but on a different micro-controller. I ... did not want to do that.
CCS is TI's environment and supports everything they make. It also has its own libraries which are closer to the hardware than the Energia ones. There are two versions downloadable: the free one which limits you to 8Kb compiled programs and the paid one which does not. The paid one is rumoured to be several hundred dollars, which makes sense: these are actually targetted at people wanting to develop applications where they buy hundreds or thousands of these MSP430 microcontroller ships and put them in their own hardware. The sample projects seem to be a bit more serious than the Arduino samples - they are not "let's do a silly fun thing!" they're "here's how you use this feature". Much more my style.
Interestingly - there is a cloud version of CCS which only needs a browser extension to talk to your device!
Wade.
Energia is based on the Arduino IDE. They've translated or recompiled all the Arduino libraries to run on the MSP. So. Use Energia if you want to code Ardunio-style but on a different micro-controller. I ... did not want to do that.
CCS is TI's environment and supports everything they make. It also has its own libraries which are closer to the hardware than the Energia ones. There are two versions downloadable: the free one which limits you to 8Kb compiled programs and the paid one which does not. The paid one is rumoured to be several hundred dollars, which makes sense: these are actually targetted at people wanting to develop applications where they buy hundreds or thousands of these MSP430 microcontroller ships and put them in their own hardware. The sample projects seem to be a bit more serious than the Arduino samples - they are not "let's do a silly fun thing!" they're "here's how you use this feature". Much more my style.
Interestingly - there is a cloud version of CCS which only needs a browser extension to talk to your device!
Wade.