Editorial

Welcome to the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI) for 2015. It is my pleasure to write to you as the new Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of TVLSI. I am honored to succeed Prof. Yehea Ismail and continue the tradition of excellence established by him and the EICs before him. I take this opportunity to thank Yehea for his dedicated service and for setting high standards for the journal. Under the visionary leadership of the past EICs, TVLSI is now firmly established as the premier archival journal for university researchers and industry practitioners in the broad area of VLSI system design. My association with TVLSI goes back all the way to my days as a graduate student; my first journal paper was published in TVLSI over 20 years ago, and since then I have been proud to publish some of my best works here. I served as an Associate Editor (AE) for TVLSI during 2005–2009 and as a member of its steering committee during the past two years. I am therefore especially delighted to contribute to the journal as EIC and continue my long association with it.