## Welcome to CrossStudio for the MSP430!

CrossStudio for MSP430 is a streamlined integrated development environment for building, testing, and deploying MSP430 applications.

CrossStudio provides:

- Source Code Editor A powerful source code editor with multi-level undo and redo, makes editing your code a breeze.
- Project System A complete project system organises your source code and build rules.
- Build System With a single key press you can build all your applications in a solution, ready for them to be loaded onto a development board or into the debugger.
- MSP430 Core Simulator The simulator mimics the behaviour of the core MSP430 CPU, so you can test your applications without hardware.
- MSP430 Flash Programming You can dowload your applications by programming them into the MSP430’s flash using the Rowley CrossConnect for MSP430, the TI parallel port Flash Emulation Tool (FET), and a number of other third party JTAG and BSL interfaces.
- Integrated Debugger With the CrossConnect, parallel port FET, or a number of thrid party JTAG programming adapters attached, you can use the integrated debugger to step through and diagnose problems in your software on your target board.
- Help system The built-in help system provides context-sensitive help and a complete reference to the CrossStudio IDE and tools.

### Getting Started

The CrossStudio Tutorial section gives an overview of how to get started with CrossWorks for MSP430.

### SoftBaugh, Olimex, and Texas Instruments Starter Kit Examples

To get you started with the MSP430 and CrossWorks for MSP430, we have written a number of demonstration programs for SoftBaugh and Olimex boards. We've collected together all the example programs that TI have distributed for the MSP430 Starter Kits and packaged them into a number of CrossStudio projects for convenience. You'll find all the example projects here.

### Release Notes

Please take a moment to read the release notes for this version of CrossWorks. In particular, if you plan to use a third party programming adapter, please read our documentation on integrating third party JTAG interfaces into CrossStudio.