Integration's aim is to cover every aspect of the VLSI area, with an emphasis on cross-fertilization between various fields of science, and the design, verification, test and applications of integrated circuits and systems, as well as closely related topics in process and device technologies. Individual issues will feature peer-reviewed tutorials and articles as well as reviews of recent publications. The intended coverage of the journal can be assessed by examining the following (non-exclusive) list of topics:

Specification methods and languages; Analog/Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems; VLSI architectures; Algorithms, methods and tools for modeling, simulation, synthesis and verification of integrated circuits and systems of any complexity; Embedded systems; High-level synthesis for VLSI systems; Logic synthesis and finite automata; Testing, design-for-test and test generation algorithms; Physical design; Formal verification; Algorithms implemented in VLSI systems; Systems engineering; Heterogeneous systems.

Special Issue on Chaotic and Fractional-Order Dynamical Systems
Submission Date: 2021-02-28

From the introduction of the butterfly-like chaotic behavior, chaos theory has evolved to include not only integer-order chaotic but also fractional-order dynamical systems. Nowadays, the main challenges on the introduction of new chaotic systems with self-excited and hidden attractors, are devoted to design memory- elements, delay blocks, and fractional-order derivatives and integrals. In this manner, this special issue will collect recent research on chaotic/hyperchaotic systems, and their emerging applications in security, cryptography, Internet of Things, random number generators, robotics and intelligent autonomous systems.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Modeling, Design and Optimization of fractional-order systems
Memristor, memcapacitor and meminductor based chaotic systems
Numerical methods for the solution of fractional-order differential equations
Synthesis methodologies for fractional-order dynamic systems
Integrated circuit design for (delayed)-chaotic/hyperchaotic systems
Experimental issues on fractional-order memrisitve systems
FPAA and FPGA solutions for fractional-order systems
Lightweight technologies and applications to the Internet of Things
Embedded and heterogeneous systems for chaotic systems and applications
Random number generators
Chaos in robotics and intelligent autonomous systems applications