Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2013 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

The seventeen articles in this special issue were selected from the 2013 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). The issue spans contributions in analog/mixed signal techniques, data converters, frequency synthesis, wireless and wireline communications, power management and memory. The selected papers demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in power, area,or integration along with innovative circuit implementations and techniques.