Foreword

On behalf of the Organizing and Program Committees, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 17th Annual IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC′09, in the city of Florianópolis, Brazil. The conference is held in the Jurerê Beach Village Hotel. VLSI-SoC 2009 is the 17th in a series of international conferences, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP, Technical Council 10, Working Group 10.5 (VLSI)), IEEE CEDA and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society that explores the state-of-the-art and the new developments in the fields of VLSI/ULSI, microelectronics design and test, and integrated mixed-technology devices. Previous conferences have taken place in Edinburgh, Trondheim, Tokyo, Vancouver, Munich, Grenoble, Gramado, Lisbon, Montpellier, Darmstadt, Perth, Nice, Atlanta and Rhodes. Conferences are held annually since 2005, and this is the second time the conference is held in Brazil.