The Imagecraft ICC430 Embedded Development Suite for Texas Instruments' MSP430 microcontrollers includes an ANSI MSP430 C-compiler, relocatable MSP430 assembler & linker, powerful and user-friendly IDE, libraries, librarian, source code management and a make utility. This package comes bundled with NoICE Debugger for MSP430.

NoICE Debugger Features

• Flash EPROM burning and debugging, if supported by target hardware.
• Source-level debug in C and assembler.
• A disassembler, which may also be used without target hardware.
• A mini-assembler.
• Memory display and editing in hex and high-level formats.
• Directly loads Imagecraft DBG files; Intel, Motorola, and Tektronix hex files, with various symbol formats; and IEEE 695 files.
• Utilities to extract line and symbol information for use with many other compilers and assemblers.
• A virtually unlimited number of breakpoints (except as restricted by hardware during Flash debugging).
• Hardware-free single step using automatically defined breakpoints.
• Definition of symbols, which may be used in expressions and by the disassembler.
• Definition of C data structures, arrays, and stack-based variables.
• The ability to record and play back files of commands, and to define such files as macros.
• On-line help in HTML format. Use of HTML allows you to annotate and customize the help system to meet your needs.

ICC430 Embedded Development Suite Features

Comprehensive Target Support

• Supports all TI MSP430 Flash microcontrollers.
• Optimized instructions usage including SWPB, bit instructions, and use of the hardware multiplier.
• Supports intrinsic functions for changing power modes, plus "monitor" functions for RTOS, etc.

Powerful and User-Friendly IDE

• Fast 32-bit Windows Integrated Development Environment, accepts long file names.
• Uncluttered tabbed editor windows.
• C editor with syntax highlighting, jump to matching braces, block indents and outdents, extensive bookmark support, and code templates.
• Application Builder to generate peripheral initialization code.
• Code Browser lists your project's functions and variables by their addresses, data type and sizes.
• Project Manager automatically generates standard makefile, one click to rebuild.
• Simple interface to select compiler options, including choose from a data base of popular chip configurations for memory address setup, select different versions of "printf" based on features and code size, and lots more!
• Built-in ANSI Terminal emulator for target communication.
• In System Programmer - downloads code.

TI MSP430 C Compiler (ANSI C)

• Modern fast MSP430 C Compiler with FULL support for the ANSI C language. NOT micro-C or extended K&R C.
• C structure debug info
• 32-bit longs, 32-bit IEEE single precision floating point.

Optimizations

• Device-specific instructions.
• Optimized switch handling.
• Algebraic simplifications.
• Block-level common subexpression elimination.
• Advanced register allocation.
• Peephole optimization.

MSP430 Assembler / Linker

• Relocatable TI MSP430 assembler and linker.
• Assembler directives include conditional processing, include files, macros and textual defines.
• Industry standard output formats; Intel HEX.

Debugger Support

• NoICE430 provides full C source-level debugging.
• Structure member info generated by Advanced and Professional versions only.
• Compilers produce listing files that are usable by most assembly-level debuggers using conversion programs.

Libraries

• Subset of ANSI C library including printf, memory allocation, strings, and math functions.
• Target-specific functions such as those for accessing EEPROM and various subsystems (SPI, ADC, etc.)

Tools

• Make utility.
• Librarian to manage library file.
• RCS for source code management.

Documentation

• Online WinHelp available as PDF. Printed manual (more than 100 pages) is included with the CD-ROM version.

Third-party Tool Support

• Command-line compilers callable from other editors (e.g. Codewright). Multiedit interface DLL also available.

Technical Support

• Excellent technical support via email. Typical turnaround time is the same day!
• Free 6 months maintenance update via internet download.
• Low-cost annual maintenance plans.

Advanced & Professional Version

• Code Compressor optimizer, which reduces final code by 5-15%. This state-of-the-art whole-program optimizer is not available in any other commercial embedded compilers.
• Generate structure members info for debugger.
• Professional version only: Global Optimizer, which improves program size and runtime speed by 10-15%.

USB Dongle Option