This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers that were p- sented during the 16th edition of the IFIP/IEEE WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, a global System-on-a-Chip Design & CAD conference.

Physical Design Issues in 3-D Integrated Technologies.- Universal Methodology to Handle Differential Pairs during Pin Assignment.- Analysis and Design of Charge Pumps for Telecommunication Applications.- Comparison of Two Autonomous AC-DC Converters for Piezoelectric Energy Scavenging Systems.- Trapping Biological Species in a Lab-on-Chip Microsystem: Micro Inductor Optimization Design and SU8 Process.- Fine-Grain Reconfigurable Logic Cells Based on Double-Gate MOSFETs.- Timed Coloured Petri Nets for Performance Evaluation of DSP Applications: The 3GPP LTE Case Study.- Real-Time Biologically-Inspired Image Exposure Correction.- A Lifting-Based Discrete Wavelet Transform and Discrete Wavelet Packet Processor with Support for Higher Order Wavelet Filters.- On the Comparison of Different Number Systems in the Implementation of Complex FIR Filters.- Time Efficient Dual-Field Unit for Cryptography-Related Processing.- A Temperature-Aware Placement and Routing Algorithm Targeting 3D FPGAs.- A Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip Architecture for Optimal Multi-Processor SoC Communication.- Fast Instruction Memory Hierarchy Power Exploration for Embedded Systems.- Timing Error Detection and Correction by Time Dilation.

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