I'm not saying you're wrong, as I'm not familiar with this stuff in the slightest, but the blog post mentions two supposedly free IDEs: IAR Embedded Kickstart, and Code Composer Studio 4.
When I worked in the TI DSP group (many years ago) we called it "Code Composter". $4.30 is cheap... but what about the time cost of using "Code Composter"?
This was about 6 years ago, so I hope for all the hacker that CC is better now.
This was about 6 years ago, so I hope for all the hacker that CC is better now.