While the focus of an embedded design is differentiation, the objective of system-level cost optimization cannot be compromised. Microchip’s PIC MCUs and dsPIC DSCs, with the CIPs, also include Integrated Analog Peripherals like on-chip sigma-delta ADC, high-speed SAR ADC and integrated operational amplifiers in a single chip with built-in control to make smart decisions without always requiring CPU intervention. These integrated analog modules eliminate the need to go for a multi-chip external components design. The integrated single-chip solution significantly reduces system level cost and saves PCB real estate, offering better optimization. With a small PCB footprint, the solution can even address the requirements of space constrained applications such as wearables and sensor applications. Further, the on-chip CIPs help in implementing several extended applications and off-load many of the deterministic routines from the CPU. Because of this, an application using these peripherals requires less processor resources like bandwidth, Flash and RAM. With the load removed from the CPU, the CIPs together with CPU enable parallel processes to be implemented without the expensive, multi-core MCUs. These intelligent peripherals, being hardware modules, respond faster to stimuli and implement the target function with a higher throughput. All these attributes of CIPs mitigate the need to migrate to higher memory, higher processing capability MCUs and optimize the design cost.