ISLPED

This is the first time that the ISLPED moves to Asia and only the second time that it moves outside California. Indeed, ISLPED is not even 10 years old: the first official ISLPED was in 1996. This indicates the continuous international interest across the VLSI electronics community for all aspects of low power. Unique to ISLPED is that it brings together researchers from academia and industry with different backgrounds in technology, circuits, micro-architectures and architectures, digital and analog design, system design and software. All have one common research concern: low power.A record total of 221 papers were submitted, this is a 35% increase compared to the last two years. Many thanks to all the authors who submitted papers: their work is the reason this symposium has become so successful. We were able to accept a total of 90 contributions: 17 regular papers, 37 short and 36 poster papers. For organizational reasons, the poster papers have been turned into short papers. It will give more exposure to the work of the authors. Regular papers and short papers have 6 pages in the proceedings. Poster papers have 4 pages in the proceedings.We have also an excellent program of keynote and invited speakers, representing a large span of research issues related to low power and representing all corners of the globe. The winners of the student design contest have a special session on Tuesday morning. Their papers are not included in the proceedings. An industry sponsored cash award will be presented to each selected design entry.