**Meet the editors**

Dr Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle received his BSc degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Puebla (ITP), México, followed by MSc and PhD degrees from Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), México, respectively. In 2001 he was appointed as Professor-Researcher at INAOE. He has authored and edited 6 books, 11 book chapters, 54 journal articles and around 100 conference

papers. He regularly serves as a reviewer in more than 20 high impact-factor journals, among them: IEEE Trans on Computer-Aided Design; IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems; Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing. He has been a member of Program Committees in 6 prestigious international conferences, and has been a reviewer for more than 20 internationally recognized conferences.

Dr Sheldon Tan is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Riverside. He received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. He is serving as an Associate Editor for ACM Transaction on Design

Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAE), and Integration, The VLSI Journal, and is a technical program committee member of DAC, ICCAD, ASPDAC, ICCD, ISQED, ASICON.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **VLSI Design for Multi-Sensor Smart Systems on a Chip 3** 

Louiza Sellami and Robert W. Newcomb

**Design for Thousand-Core Processors: From Aspect of Thermal Management 17**  Chiao-Ling Lung, Jui-Hung Chien, Yung-Fa Chou,

Ding-Ming Kwai and Shih-Chieh Chang

Chapter 3 **Carbon Nanotube- and Graphene Based Devices, Circuits and Sensors for VLSI Design 41**  Rafael Vargas-Bernal and Gabriel Herrera-Pérez

Díaz Méndez J. Alejandro, López Delgadillo Edgar

Chapter 5 **VLSI Design of Sorting Networks in CMOS Technology 93**  Víctor M. Jiménez-Fernández, Ana D. Martínez, Joel Ramírez, Jesús S. Orea, Omar Alba, Pedro Julián, Juan A. Rodríguez,

**of Large Analog Circuits on GPU Platforms 113** 

Osvaldo Agamennoni and Omar D. Lifschitz

**Part 2 Modeling, Simulation and Optimization 111** 

Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Xue-Xin Liu, Eric Mlinar and Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle

Chapter 7 **Algorithms for CAD Tools VLSI Design 129** 

Chapter 4 **Impedance Matching in VLSI Systems 67** 

and Arroyo Huerta J. Erasmo

Chapter 6 **Parallel Symbolic Analysis** 

K.A. Sumithra Devi

Chapter 2 **Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits** 

**Part 1 VLSI Design 1** 
