Introduction to the IEEE-CASS workshop on micro/nanoelectronic circuits and systems

Very few social and technological revolutions in the history of humankind have become as vertiginous as the one experienced in the first decade of the 21st century. In fact, it would be very difficult to explain our present society without resorting to the so-called Information Technologies, and particularly to some technological achievements such as the Internet, mobile phones and social networks. Technology downscaling toward deep nanoscale level has allowed to put billions of transistors together in a single chip, thus making it possible to integrate entire systems with increasingly number of applications, which span from consumer electronics and computing to telecom and biomedical devices.