Introduction to the Special Issue on the IEEE 2012 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

This Special Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits is comprised of 20 papers selected from the 2012 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). The issue spans contributions in RF/wireless, high-speed I/O, and analog/mixed-signal including PLLs, data converters, power management, digital systems and analog techniques. The selected papers demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in power, area, or integration along with innovative circuit implementations and techniques.