SLAU533D September 2013 – April 2017
Although the files can be viewed with any text editor, more can be done with the projects if they are opened with CCS or IAR. (Although support for mspgcc is increasing, the USB API does not yet fully support mspgcc. See the FAQs in Section 5.)
CCS and IAR are each available in a full version and a free code-size-limited version. Although the software demo can be built with the free version of CCS, the code is too large to be built with the free version of IAR (IAR KickStart). This is primarily because the software demo has an MSC interface in it, and MSC interfaces and storage volumes require more memory. Most USB examples built on the MSP430 USB API (in the MSP430 USB Developers Package) that do not have an MSC Interface can be built with IAR KickStart, and IAR Embedded Workbench is fully supported.
See the MSP430 software tools page to download these IDEs and for instructions on installation.