TI Support Ecosystem
If you’ve ever had to return to low-level code a year later – or port it to another device in the same
MCU family – you’ll really appreciate the convenience and ease-of-use of DriverLib.
Energia
Energia is a community-based port of the ever-popular Arduino. This software makes it easy for
users to grab code already available in the Arduino community and put it to good use on TI’s
MSP430 Launchpads. In other words, it puts the word “rapid” in rapid-prototyping.
In fact, Energia isn’t just for prototyping anymore. There are many customers using this in small
to midsize production systems. In any case, whether you use it for prototyping or otherwise, you’ll
find it an easy, fun way to get your ideas into hardware. (With good reason, Arduino helped coin
the phrase, “Sketching with hardware”.)
(Coming in 2014, look for Arduino support in TI’s high-end development tool: Code Composer Studio.)
TI-RTOS
TI’s real-time operating system (TI-RTOS) is a highly capable package of system-building
software. It’s not just enough to package a bunch of software libraries together into a single
executable; the TI-RTOS team validates all the components against each other – creating
examples that utilize all the various libraries.
The soul of TI-RTOS is the TI-RTOS Kernel (formerly named SYS/BIOS). The kernel provides a broad set of
embedded system services, most notably: Threads, Scheduling, Semaphores, Instrumentation, Memory
Management, inter-thread communication and so on. It’s been built with modularity in mind, so it’s easy to
take the parts that make sense for your application and exclude the parts that don’t.
TI-RTOS includes the kernel plus a number of customized drivers built upon the TI-wares (i.e. MSP430ware
DriverLib). They’ve also thrown in a variety of other O/S level packages, such as: USB Stack, WiFi
networking, FatFs. (The list will continue to grow, so keep your eye on the TI-RTOS webpage.)
MSP430 Workshop - Programming C with CCS 2 - 5
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