The variety of topics in the field of embedded system development is constantly growing. The embedded world Conference 2011 aims to offer participants a means of orientation, to set trends, present solutions, and consequently focuses on keynote themes that are of significance for the entire embedded community today or will be in the near future.The thirty person jury of reputed experts has composed an excellent, technically in-depth conference program from the large number of submitted contributions and invited papers. Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology (FIRST) in Berlin played an active role in shaping the program. For this reason too, attendees can expect papers of an impressive standard, plotting the future, but at the same time reflecting real practice and oriented on solutions.