Proceedings of the 19th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2009, Boston Area, MA, USA, May 10-12 2009

Welcome to the 19th edition of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) 2009 held in Braintree, Massachusetts, one of the top academic, historic, and tourist attractions in the world. Since its first meeting in March 1991 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, GLSVLSI has traveled beyond the Great Lakes region of the United States and has 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, 215 papers were submitted, of which 62 papers were accepted for oral presentation at the symposium (a 29% acceptance rate). With poster papers, a total of 100 papers will be presented at the symposium and published in the proceedings. The final technical program consists of 34 full presentations and 28 short presentations in 12 oral sessions and 38 posters in 2 poster sessions. This year, we have five excellent keynote speeches that will be delivered by Massoud Pedram (University of Southern California), Jacob White (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eby G. Friedman (University of Rochester), Pinaki Mazumder (University of Michigan, National Science Foundation) and Wolfgang Porod (University of Notre Dame). We are also looking forward to an exciting tutorial on emerging technologies scheduled for Sunday evening, the 10th of May. The tutorial is being presented by three well-known researchers spanning three different areas: biosensing, terahertz sensing, and meta-nanocircuits. The tutorial is free for all registered attendees of the conference. Congratulations to Yang Sun and Joseph Cavallaro from Rice University, for winning the GLSVLSI 2009 Best Student Paper Award for their paper "High Throughput VLSI Architecture for Soft-Output MIMO Detection Based on a Greedy Graph Algorithm".