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.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 16th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2008, held in Rhodes Island, Greece, in October 2008. The 14 papers presented together with an invited contribution were carefully selected from 56 papers. The papers cover a wide variety of excellence in VLSI technology and advanced research in the fields of VLSI/ULSI systems, embedded systems, and microelectronic design and test.