The pervasiveness of embedded processing is already happening everywhere around us. At home, appliances as mundane as your basic toaster now come with an embedded MCU that not only sets the darkness of the piece of toast to your preference, but also adds functional safety to the device. Your refrigerator has started talking to you and keeping track of what you put in it. There are energy-aware HVAC systems that can now generate a report on the activity in your house and recommend ways to reduce your energy consumption. The electrification of vehicles has already started happening, and in just a few years from now, each car will contain >50 percent more electronics than it did just five years ago. The cars of the future will indeed be able to drive themselves. Similar changes are also happening in other aspects of our lives … in factories, transportation, school systems, stadiums and other public venues. Embedded processing is everywhere.