Annotation Papers from a September 2001 symposium report on recent advances in areas of integrated circuits and systems design, including embedded systems, rapid prototyping, formal methods, codesign, CAD and test, analog, digital, and physical design, and low power and low voltage. Specific topics include communication architectures for system-on- chip, using the CAN protocol and reconfigurable computing technology for Web-based smart house automation, and optimizing BBD-based verification analyzing variable dependencies. Other subjects include interconnection length estimation at logic level, an environment to aid the synthesis of threephase analogue waveform using AHDL, and extending sequencing graphs for reconfigurable applications modeling. This work lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.