How is that different than the CCS I was able to download after previous launch pad purchases? I've only played with it a bit but it appears to be the full version.
What does "node locked" mean?
Ditched long time ago the MSP family and CCS which suck after I discovered the Cypress PSOC family (more versatile) , and specially the free PSOC creator, a much better working environment. Documentation for the PSOC is amazing btw.
And some of the eval boards share the pinouts to be compatible with arduino extensions
How is that different than the CCS I was able to download after previous launch pad purchases? I've only played with it a bit but it appears to be the full version.
I believe the difference is in the use of the Ti compiler
Use CCS for free - By default when you install Code Composer Studio a free license will be enabled that supports working with development boards with an onboard debug interface, XDS1xx class debug probes, MSP430 with 16KB code size limit when using the TI compiler and 32KB code size limit with MSP432 and no limit when using GCC. A 90-day evaluation license is also available.
What does "node locked" mean?
From what I understand, limited to the use on one single computer.
How is that different than the CCS I was able to download after previous launch pad purchases? I've only played with it a bit but it appears to be the full version.
What does "node locked" mean?
The compilers in the free version are code size limited.
Node locked means you can pick I believe two MAC addresses for the license to be valid for.
How is that different than the CCS I was able to download after previous launch pad purchases? I've only played with it a bit but it appears to be the full version.
What does "node locked" mean?
The compilers in the free version are code size limited.[/qoute]
I'm fairly cetain there is no code size limit on the CCS version I have - which uses GCC. That is what their website says.
Until now, I had not realized there was a seperate TI compiler available which is code size limited. I'm an embedded C newbie - what advantage would there be to using the TI compiler? Speed?
How is that different than the CCS I was able to download after previous launch pad purchases? I've only played with it a bit but it appears to be the full version.
What does "node locked" mean?
The compilers in the free version are code size limited.[/qoute]
I'm fairly cetain there is no code size limit on the CCS version I have - which uses GCC. That is what their website says.
If you use the non-default GCC compiler, yes, there's no code size limit. This is good, seeing as it doesn't optimise nearly as well.
The TI MSP430 compiler is substantially better than GCC. And then there's all the compilers you get for other MCUs, such as their C2000 range.
Actually I was wrong, I had thought it was using GCC but it appears to be using TI compilers. It is not code size limited as far as I can tell.
If you're a collector of dev-kits, who isn't?. At least I hope i'm not the only one who has trouble resisting a coupon.
Ha, yeah I have several TI dev kits - all had for low prices. I've actually used some of them for online courses - the Tiva C for the UT embedded course (using Keil) and the MSP430 for a UC Berkeley electonics/robotics course (used Energia).
I'm having a hard time resisting this. Not sure I'll ever need a full CCS license but if nothing else it would be nice to have a socketed MSP430 dev board...
Is this version of CCS support developing applications for other families like Concerto or sitara ? or it is locked to this LaunchPad series?
The code of the item is TMDSCCS-ALLN01D
This is what is written in my order form.
So its should be the full version, with no restrictions. Exactly the one that retails 445$.
You can dowload it already. They will just send some licence file that i have not received yet.
Does any one received license file?
Is this license contain any online or mail/ticket based support?
Is this possible to activate a CCS V5 with this license ?
Are they crazy?Who will pay 450 $ for CCS after this?
Is allowed for using in commercial projects ?
A nice thing that has happened at some point in the past few years is that TI has apparently extended their estore system so that you can order many of their parts in low (or whatever) quantities as well as development kits / tools.
So for the same shipping cost (at least in the US and for modest quantities of items) you can get some parts too.
I didn't notice that their low quantity parts prices from their estore were particularly good compared to, say, digikey or Mouser, but they weren't so bad that I didn't throw in many of my "I should get that" items from TI into the order along with the devkit that I was ordering anyway.
I could have spent all day finding / adding parts like opamps and such...
yep, price is lower than digikey and they somehow don't charge tax. Funny thing is it ends up being fulfilled by digikey.
Just for information; order my board September 5, arrived today September 8. Also received the email today with the license.
Received my two boards at about 17:00. The licenses emails arrived an hour later.
Ordered on Monday, got the sw licence on Thursday and Fedex tried to deliver today (Friday).
How does CCS compare with other development environments and compilers for ARM Cortex such as Embitz/Emblocks with GCC? Does it provide any help in configuring pinmuxes and peripherals like ST's CubeMX? Would there be any benefit from learning yet another IDE?
If you order today (11th September 2016) and probably tomorrow, TI ships for free.
Regards,
Venkat
I did order successfully and got free shipping. You don't need any coupon code either.
Regards,
Venkatesh