Hi Clark, No, you do not need to use Code Composer Studio. You can use the old TI ASM toolchain, and there are two C compilers for the PRU's. One of which is also from TI. Someone else ported gcc to the PRU as well.
Here is a link to a list of compilers, the first one from TI is the cgt C compiler for the PRU. With binaries for Windows, Linux, and ARMv8 Linux. Quite honestly, the ARMv8 compiler option is what I'd suggest( used on the beaglebone ), and I can not even see how the Windows version is useful . . .but it's there. Anyway, some people prefer to use CCS because, it's an IDE to make them feel all warm and fuzzy. CCS does seem to have some nice bell and whistles, but at the cost of a huge download, and bloated software that I've personally found sluggish in the past. I prefer to use the toolchain from the commandline, and use a text editor with good syntax highlighting instead . .. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORrsCk0vZxJVB7UFGy1kqoEFEFkKVVF6KJZ-0dDzJ-YPyw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
