ARM Assembly Language, 2nd Edition

Appendix A: Running Code Composer Studio

A.1 Introduction

Code Composer Studio (CCS) is freely available from http://www.ti.com and provides a development environment for all of Texas Instruments’ ARM-based SoCs and microcontrollers, e.g., Sitara™, Hercules™, and Tiva™. Very inexpensive development platforms and evaluation modules (EVMs) can be found from distributors, so getting a real Cortex-M4 running code takes relatively little effort. A wide variety of microcontrollers are available from Texas Instruments, and their peripherals can be driven with inputs to exercise I/O pins, A/D converters, UARTs, etc. The Tiva Launchpad (shown earlier in Figure 1.6) contains a Cortex-M4-based microcontroller with floating-point hardware, and makes for ...