ISLPED

Welcome to the 2002 International symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), also known in short as the "low power symposium". ISLPED is unique in the sense that it brings academic and industrial researchers, technology, circuit, architecture, systems and software people together: their common concern being design for low power.A total of 162 contributed papers were received. Many thanks to all the authors who submitted their manuscripts. We return to the 2,5 days program to give us a little more room to switch between sessions and interact with other participants during the poster sessions. Even with two parallel sessions, we were able to accept only 24 long papers, 16 short papers and 21 poster papers. We will also have one keynote speech, two invited presentations and two embedded tutorials. These invited presentations are again from the wide span of topics in this symposium: a presentation on low voltage memories, one on nanotechnology and one on system integration for wireless communication. The winners of the student design contest have a special session on Tuesday afternoon. The goal of the design contest is to encourage innovation in low power design and to showcase original power-aware designs. An industry sponsored cash award will be presented to each selected design entry. This year, the symposium will once again feature a small exhibits are.