Hello all.
I began to learn at school programming µC on ColdFire and HCS12 and it was quite easy to do some simple codes and projects.
Then while an internship I learned by myself how to program PIC16F1823 in C-code and I found it quite simple, well explained datasheets with procedure and exemples! I was not really looking for low cost and low consumption µC.
I wanted to do the switch to MSP430 because now at shcool they lean how to program it because it's less expensive than PIC16 (4€/35€) and can be interesting for low-power projects (with long time batteries for example).
Now I working on a porting-code project in my company from an obsolete MSP with 5200 lines of assembly code with was coded in 1996...
I find the datasheets of MSP430 not really understandable and well-organised! I prefer a lot the Microchip one! Almost exemples in datasheets are in assembly language and if we copy/paste it in CCS it's never working! Even for exemples we have to change something!
CCS is not limited by the memory size of the µC we are using but is free for 16k or less and is very expensive, especially when is bugging when a code is running...
Moreover, I had some questions for my project and any TI employee take the time to answer to my post on the forum...
I hope I will have better chance in the future because I think MSP is anyway a good product ;)