Proceedings of the 17th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2007, Stresa, Lago Maggiore, Italy, March 11-13, 2007

Welcome to the 17th edition of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), the first one held outside of USA and at the beautiful Stresa-Lago Maggiore of Italy. Since its first meeting in March 1991 at Kalamazoo, Michigan, GLSVLSI has traveled beyond the Great Lakes and become an international conference with submissions from all over the world. It has emerged as a premier conference for publishing innovations in VLSI.This year, a record number of 324 papers were submitted, of which 68 papers (a 21% acceptance rate) were accepted for oral presentation at the symposium. With poster papers, a total of 114 papers will be presented at the symposium and published in the proceedings. The final technical program consists of 34 full presentations and 34 short ones in 17 oral sessions and 46 posters in 2 poster sessions.Congratulations to Michalis Galanis and Costas Goutis for winning the GLSVLSI 2007 Best Student Paper Award. Their paper "Improving Performance and Energy Consumption in Embedded Microprocessor Platforms with a Flexible Custom Coprocessor Data-path" will be one of the first presentations in the symposium. They will also receive the prize on Monday's dinner banquet.This year's tutorial is on "Thermal modeling and thermal-aware design in nanometer technologies" and is organized by Prof. Mircea Stan of University of Virginia.We are also looking forward to the six keynote speeches that will be delivered by Georges Gielen (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven), Kiyoo Itoh (Hitachi), Philippe Magarshack (STMicroelectronics), Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL), Massoud Pedram (University of Southern California), Sachin Sapatnekar (University of Minnesota), and an embedded tutorial by Jamil Kawa and Charles Chiang (Synopsys, Inc).