When most people hear software suite, they hear libraries. However, controlSUITE™ goes beyond that in multiple aspects. TI made controlSUITE to answer their customer’s questions, to solve their real-world concerns. One of those concerns is having software throughout the design cycle, not just basic examples. controlSUITE takes a user through the entire software design process. From the evaluation of device peripherals all the way to application design, controlSUITE has user-selectable modules or building blocks for every stage of development. Another concern customers have is how to differentiate from competition. The controlSUITE tool is really the culmination of 15+ years of real-time control systems engineering. TI is taking all of that experience, and putting it into modular application level libraries and unique tools, for real-world systems, and providing open source hardware examples to accelerate software development for customers. Finally, a lot of effort was put into addressing the concern that software is often hard to access. With completely free software, the flexibility to choose an approach to learn and program the device, as well as a setup that allows re-use across product lines and developments, controlSUITE takes embedded software to a whole new realm of usability.