Bibliografía: al final de cada artículo Notas: al pie de texto Guest Editor's introduction: sistem IC desing challenges beyond 32 nm / William Joiner and David C. Yeh. p.294 Chanlleges and solutions for late - and post silicon desing / Jan M. Rabaey and Sharad Malik. p.296 Interview: A discussion whit intel cahir craog barret /Tim Cheng; William Joyner; David Yeh; Jan Rabaey. p.304 The concurrency cahllenge / Wen - Mei Hwu; Kurt Keutzer and Timothy G. Mattson. p.312 The GRSC: Bridging Academia and industry / Richard Oehler. p.321 Reliable systems on unreliable fabrics / Toss Austin; Valeria Bertacco; Scott Manlke and Yu Cao. p.322 The changing desinmg landscape / Ajit Amerasekera. p.333 The search for alternative computational paradings / Naresh Shanbhag; Subhasish Miltra; Gustavom de Veciana; Michael Orshansky; Radu Marculescu; Jaijeet Roychowdury; Douglas Jones and Jan M. Rabaey. p.334 Variability and New desing paradigms / Leon Stok. p.344 Is a unified methodology for system - level design possible / Alberto Sangiovanni - VICENTELLI. P.346 Workloads of the future / Jan Rabaey; Daniel Burke-; Ken Lutz and John Wawrzynek. p.358 Perspectives: the GSRC role in meeting tomorrow's design challenges / John C Zalper. p.366 OTHER FEATURES A digital-microfluidic approach to chip cooling / Phllip Paik; Vamsee Pamula and Krishnendu Chakrabarty. p372