CTRL is a configurable software. It can control:

800 digital I/O lines
100 flags (software switches of '0' or '1')
8 channels of 12 bit Analog to Digital
8 channels Digital to Analog
8 axes of motion (stepper or servo)
The serial COM ports on the PC

CTRL has built-in Tracking, Logging, SPC charting, Alarms and Fault management. It features a rich set of commands to perform popular tasks. These include

various real world actions, like the CYL command which activates a cylinder

while monitoring its limit switches. Other commands are used for program flow control and include LOOP, DELAY, IF and many others.