With physical feature sizes in VLSI designs decreasing rapidly, existing efficient architecture designs need be reexamined. Advanced VLSI architecture designs are required to further reduce power consumption, compress chip area, and speed up operating frequency for high-performance integrated circuits. With time-to-market pressure and rising mask costs in the semiconductor industry, engineering change order (ECO) design methodology plays a main role in advanced chip design. Digital systems such as communication and multimedia applications demand advanced VLSI architecture design methodologies so that low power consumption, small area overhead, high speed, and low cost can be achieved.

This special issue is dedicated to aspects of VLSI architecture design and their applications. Special interest focuses on emerging digital systems. The authors working in this area are strongly encouraged to submit original research papers, as well as review articles. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Engineering change order (ECO) for VLSI design
• Low power VLSI architecture design for digital systems
• High speed VLSI architecture design for digital systems
• Area efficient VLSI architectures for digital systems
• Fault tolerance and error control for digital systems
• Novel reconfigurable and programmable architectures for emerging digital systems
• On-chip communication design for emerging digital systems

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/vlsi/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/vlsi/avad/ according to the following timetable: