Re: Need help with msp430 software

Mike,

Sorry wrong guy to ask.  I avoid Windows and thus have no experience that could guide you. I got the "black screen of death" on CentOS Linux 3 times playing w/ the F5529LP.  Sometimes CCS worked properly (both button 1 & 2) and sometimes it crashed (both button 1 & 2).   Lots of UI things (e.g.  one click project creation, change background color) did not work as all.  I have no tolerance for software that crashes.  I *really* don't like it when the OS crashes and does not produce a crash dump or even a panic message in the system log file.   That's the main reason I've done so little w/ MCUs.   I fix bugs as soon as I know how to reproduce them, but other people seem to prefer adding new features instead.  If I can find something that works reliably I'll continue.  Otherwise I'll find a different amusement.

I'm an old big systems guy playing w/ toys.  There are some real embedded system pros here. Onestone probably can help. He has high standards, but I don't think unreasonable.

If you want to use assembly language I suggest you look at Alfred Arnold's AS:

http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/as/

I've only used it to build Mecrisp forth, but it's got a fabulous manual and looks absolutely first rate.

Good luck,
Reg

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On Sat, 2/28/15, 'Mike Carpenters' [email protected] [msp430] <[email protected]> wrote:

 Subject: [msp430] Need help with msp430 software
 To: "Reg Beardsley" <[email protected]>
 Date: Saturday, February 28, 2015, 5:41 AM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       
 
 
 
 Reg,
     I have just joined
 the msp430 
 group and am having trouble finding correct info on
 programming one of the chips 
 in the set. 24F169 64 pin device and have not had much luck
 programming the 
 BLINKER demo (partially because the pin outs in the example
 are for the wrong 
 port). Do you know of a good reference book on using  the
 CCS compiler 
 under Windows XP or a suitable replacement such as IAR? I am
 not concerned 
 wheather it is supported or not as long as it is workable in
 assembly code. Any 
 help or descriptions of problem areas would be highly
 appreciated. Thanks Mike 
 Carpenter  (214)375 9848 internet address 
 [email protected]
 
 
 
 
     
      
 
     
     
 
 
 
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