Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, and President of the Scientific Committee of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983). His research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis, hw/sw co-design and low-power design, as well as systems on heterogeneous platforms including electrical, optical, micromechanical and biological components. He is author of one book and co-author and/or co-editor of six other books and of over 300 technical articles. He is, or has been, member of the technical advisory board of several companies, including Magma Design Automation, Coware, Aplus Design Technologies, Ambit Design Systems and STMicroelectronics. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE.

Yusuf Leblebici received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. Beginning in January 2002, Dr. Leblebici became a full (chair) professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and director of the newly established Microelectronic Systems Laboratory. His research interests include design of high-speed CMOS digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, computer-aided design of VLSI systems, intelligent sensor interfaces, modelling and simulation of semiconductor devices, and VLSI reliability analysis. Dr. Leblebici is the co-author of two textbooks, as well as numerous scientific articles published in international journals and conferences.

Alain Vachoux graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1980. He obtained his Ph.D. from the same institute in 1988 for his work on large-scale simulation of MOS circuits. In 2002, Alain Vachoux joined back EPFL to work in the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory (LSM) as a research associate. His main task is to develop R&D activities on design flows and methodologies and on the use of languages for analog and mixed-signal design. Alain Vachoux is a lecturer in EPFL on digital, analog and mixed-signal modeling using VHDL and VHDL-AMS.

Stéphane Badel graduated from Ecole d'ingénieurs de Genéve (EIG) with specialization in electronics back in 1999. Four years later he received the Engineer Degree (Diploma) in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He immediately joined the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory (LSM) as a research assistant. In March 2003, he has received the scientific award "Prix de la Fondation ANNAHEIM" (Villeneuve, Switzerland) for his diploma project entitled "VLSI Design of a Hamming Artificial Neural Network". He obtained his Ph.D. from EPFL in 2008 with the topic "Current-Mode Logic Circuits". Stéphane Badel is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at LSM.