Just imagine: Starting a new design based on DSP, and you only have used MSP430 before. Yes, the technology is vastly different and the design will also challenge you. But the software you have been using for your MSP430 device, will still look familiar. - Quite a comfort based on today’s design cycle challenges and the need to produce defect free designs, first time. Your MCU design is running out of steam in today’s “high bandwidth” environment. You need higher performance, no problem: Just select a higher performance part in the product range or, if you need to “upgrade” to a MPU or DSP device instead, well still no problem on the IDE front.

CCS v4 also fixes some of the issues you would normally face with IDEs:
You have a large selection of features in your IDE, but how do you get all that information in the screen so you can actually see it? This IDE allows you to select what you actually want to “see” at exactly the time you want to see it.

Typically you have more than one project at a time, with each project being at a different stage in development and often using different versions of compile tools or operating systems, how can you cope? CCS v4 allows you to set the version of the compiler and DSP/BIOS that each individual project will use allowing projects in maintenance mode to continue to use the tools they were deployed with and enabling new projects to use the latest high performance tools.