Hello,
I am just wondering if using TI-RTOS on MSP430 devices is still recommended for new designs.
We have just started to develop a new Product, which we are considering to use an MSP430FR5994 for,
since we need low power consumption. Being able to use the FRAM as target for the DMA is definitely a plus for our application.
We however came to realize that the actual support for these devices is pretty weak in the newer development tools.
One example would be, that Code composer studio 9.x lets you access several TI-RTOS examples, which do
compile, but can not be run. We are not sure if this is due to an error on our side, but we would expect that the controller specific
examples should work out of the box without any modifications.
After looking up online on why it might not be working, I came across this:
Fig. 1 - Screenshot of TIRTOS known issue 1851
Since CCS 6.1.3 has been superseded in late 2016 / early 2017 (so pretty much 3 years ago), and there is now an explicit advice not to use older versions,
we are now wondering whether that means that MSP430 are generally not well supported in 2019+.
Fig. 2 - Screenshot of recommendation for usage of newest version of CCS taken from CSS download page
So all in all, would you recommend to switch to another controller type or toolchain, or is using the MSP430 with the old tools still a good idea?
