Recently the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the invention of the first transistor‎.‎ The first integrated circuit ‎(‎IC‎)‎ was built a decade later‎,‎ with the first microprocessor designed in the early 1970s‎.‎ Today‎,‎ ICs are a part of nearly every aspect of our daily lives‎.‎ They help us live longer and more comfortably‎,‎ and do more‎,‎ faster‎.‎ All this is possible because of the relentless search for new materials‎,‎ circuit designs‎,‎ and ideas happening on a daily basis at industrial and academic institutions around the globe‎.‎ Showcasing the latest advances in very‎-large‎-scale integrated ‎(‎VLSI‎)‎ circuits‎,‎ VLSI‎:‎ Circuits for Emerging Applications provides a balanced view of industrial and academic developments beyond silicon and complementary metal‎-oxide‎-semiconductor ‎(‎CMOS‎)‎ technology‎.‎ From quantum‎-dot cellular automata ‎(‎QCA‎)‎ to chips for cochlear implants‎,‎ this must‎-have resource‎:‎ * Investigates the trend of combining multiple cores in a single chip to boost performance of the overall system * Describes a novel approach to enable physically unclonable functions ‎(‎PUFs‎)‎ using intrinsic features of a VLSI chip * Examines the VLSI implementations of major symmetric and asymmetric key cryptographic algorithms‎,‎ hash functions‎,‎ and digital signatures * Discusses nonvolatile memories such as resistive random‎-access memory ‎(‎Re‎-RAM‎)‎‎,‎ magneto‎-resistive RAM ‎(‎MRAM‎)‎‎,‎ and floating‎-body RAM ‎(‎FB‎-RAM‎)‎ * Explores organic transistors‎,‎ soft errors‎,‎ photonics‎,‎ nanoelectromechanical ‎(‎NEM‎)‎ relays‎,‎ reversible computation‎,‎ bioinformatics‎,‎ asynchronous logic‎,‎ and more VLSI‎:‎ Circuits for Emerging Applications presents cutting‎-edge research‎,‎ design architectures‎,‎ materials‎,‎ and uses for VLSI circuits‎,‎ offering valuable insight into the current state of the art of micro‎- and nanoelectronics‎.‎