My point in this case is that LT3957 does not even contain any embedded firmware. There even is a block diagram in it's datasheet that consists of few opamps, about 20 logic gates and few blackboxes that does not do anything complex (I assume that each such blackbox is not more than about 20 transistors).

[edit: the "seriously, wtf?" comment has to do with naming it "inverting controller", not with it's destruction]