The multi-solution approach refers to NXP’s software offering structure, as supported by the BeeKit software development tool. BeeStack is NXP’s ZigBee compliant software stack offering. The multi-solution approach is based on the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model, a networking framework for implementing protocols. In the OSI model, control is passed from one layer to the next, starting at the hardware layer and working up to the application layer and back. NXP’s multi-solution offerings work similarly. This foundation provides a common framework across NXP’s software solutions: the Simple Media Access Control (SMAC) layer, the 802.15.4 Media Access Control (MAC) solution, and the fully-compliant ZigBee solution. The structure offers designers the ability to reuse knowledge developed by using BeeKit from solution to solution, thereby reducing the need to learn multiple software tools from the bottom up. The BeeKit works in partnership with microcontroller compiler solutions to set up the radio and develop application software respectively.