Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design

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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design -- ISLPED 2012. This year's symposium continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading-edge issues of low-power design. The mission of the symposium is to share novel low-power solutions that fulfill the needs of electronics design and identify new directions for future research and development. ISLPED gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of low-power design. The call for papers attracted 213 submissions from Asia, Canada, Europe, Africa, and the United States. The program committee accepted 66 papers, including 34 for full-length presentations, 14 for half-length presentations, and 18 for poster presentations. They cover a variety of topics, including next-generation technology, architecture, analog and MEMS, design tools, methodology, and optimization techniques for low-power design. We thank the authors for providing the content of the program. We are grateful to the program committee members, who volunteered their valuable time and hard work in reviewing papers, attending the in-person review meeting, and providing feedback for authors. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and developers on these topics. This year's program features three keynote speakers over three days. On the first day, Dr. Pradip Bose (IBM) introduces energy-secure computing, a new topic on ensuring robust and secure functionality while meeting the energy-related constraints of the emerging green-computing era. On the second day, Dr. Kaushik Roy (Purdue University) presents using spin (as opposed to charge) as state variable for memory and logic computation to achieve high density and very low power. On the third day, Dr. Uming Ko (MediaTek USA) speaks on ultra-low power challenges for the next-generation ASICs. In addition, the program includes a special session on future needs for low-power electronic design from an industry perspective, a panel on green communication and storage systems, and an embedded tutorial on power and thermal management for smart phones. We hope that you will find this program forward-looking and thought-provoking and that the symposium will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.