Code Composer Studio was first developed under the name Code Composer by the software company GO DSP, located in Toronto, [[Canada]], which was acquired by [[Texas Instruments]] in 1997.<ref>''[{{cite web |title=Texas Instruments to Acquire GO DSP Corporation |url=http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/presshistory/company/1997/c97093.shtml TI|publisher=Texas PressInstruments release]''|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054738/http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/presshistory/company/1997/c97093.shtml |archive-date=2016-03-04 |date=1997-12-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Following its integrationIntegration with a[[DSP/BIOS]] real-timewas kerneladded knownto asCode DSP/BIOSComposer, and Code Composer was rebranded as Code Composer Studio.<ref>''[[SYS/BIOS#History|History of SYS/BIOS]]''</ref> {{cn}}
CCS releases up until 3.3 were based on a proprietary interface, but. TI wasdeveloped alreadya working in parallel on the development of annew [[Integrated development environment|IDE]] based on the open-source [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]]. This IDE was, named Code Composer Essentials (CCE), andthat was designed for the [[MSP430]] line of microcontrollers. Beginning with release 4.0, all new versions of CCS would also use an interface based upon Eclipse.
Code Composer was originally developed for [[Digital signal processor|DSP]] development,therefore one of its main differentiators at the time was the availabilityand offeatured graphical visualization tools (XY graphs, FFT magnitude and phase, constellation, raw image visualization) and support for visualizing memory in several [[Computer number format|numeric formats]] (decimal, floating-point).{{cn}}
In 2015, a [[Cloudcloud computing]] version of CCS was introduced and is part of the suite TI Cloud Tools,<ref>[https://dev.ti.com TI Cloud Tools main page]</ref> which also hosts Resource Explorer<ref>[http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Resource_Explorer Resource Explorer tools page at TI wiki]</ref> and Pinmux.<ref>[http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI_PinMux_Tool Pinmux utility page at TI wiki]</ref>
