Most electronics products today are a synthesis of hardware design and embedded software, and the embedded software is the main differentiator for product functionality and performance.

As a result, embedded software has increased dramatically in electronic systems design. Software development platform offers a source code with no royalty fees, a real-time operating system (RTOS) and a fully integrated development system. This means that embedded software tools can be developed and tested at the same time as hardware, and can be debugged simultaneously. Furthermore, the simultaneous development enables a "design-in" reliability so that good architectural decisions can be made in both hardware and software development.