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ARM, C2000 and MSP430 Code Generation Tools 16.9.0.LTS Production Release

Dunni Aribuki
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The ARM, C2000 and MSP430 Compiler Tools version 16.9.0.LTS are now available for Windows, Linux and OS X.

CCS users can get the compilers via the CCS App Center, or by installing the compilers as new features as documented here.

 The compilers are also available as web downloads from Codegen Tools Downloads page.

 Highlights of this release are:

  • Performance improvements: This release improves our implementation of the LZSS compression algorithm for C auto initialization tables and copy tables, and switches the default compression algorithm for these tables from RLE to LZSS. In addition, compressed sections are now aligned to byte boundaries to reduce holes within the sections. Improvements were also made to allow better inlining of functions with single call sites.
  • Options cleanup: In this release we removed several options that were either duplicates or unnecessary.
  • Power savings improvements: This release adds a new --align_for_power compiler option for MSP430. The --align_for_power option aligns all functions and loops to 4 byte boundaries.

Please see MCU Compiler v16 for more details on new features available in this release. Updated versions of Compiler User’s Guides are available here.