Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2020 Symposium on VLSI Circuits

This Special Issue of the IEEE Journal of Solidstate Circuits highlights some of the best papers presented at the Symposium on VLSI Circuits, held on June 15–19, 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this was the first VLSI Symposium that was held fully virtual. While it is difficult to replace all of the interactions of an in-person conference, the symposium featured all of the technical material, including regular and invited papers, plenaries, short courses, and a forum. In addition, new content was added, including a series of executive sessions where paper authors, technical program committee members, and the audience engaged in open discussions on key topics related to our field. While the live events were concentrated in that one week, on demand content was available through the end of August for participants to view at their leisure.