Various innovations in embedded systems have opened up several business opportunities. Many companies have ventured into this space, creating an intense competition. Hence, embedded designers are under constant pressure to innovate in order to meet demands like product offering enhancement for differentiation, design optimization for cost competitiveness and meeting product specification and performance goals, while reducing time to market the product. Microcontrollers, being the key component of an embedded system, must keep up with this challenge of evolving system needs. This has led to the creation of 16-bit PIC® MCUs and dsPIC® DSCs with new levels of integration from Microchip Technology.