I am looking into the MSP430 series of microcontrollers for a project.
I have surveyed the tools and I found the following companies make C compilers for it:
- Quadravox
- IAR
- Rowley & Associates
- HiTech
- ICC430
- MSPGCC (free)
Hardware/JTAG debugging toolwise I see:
- Softbaugh (USBP(E), USBPPRO)
- Elprotronic formatting link
What did you think of the compiler? The hardware JTAG debugging interfaces? Cost for the tools? (I need just one seat). IAR seems to expensive and overhyped.
I tried out AVR-GCC one time but found the lack of useful pragmas/macros for microcontrollerish things to be frustrating. I have used the HiTech C compiler for PIC and also the CCS PIC compiler. Both were good, CCS had a lot of nifty features (#use rs232, #fuse, etc).
John.