This book is a collection of papers presented by renowned researchers, keynote speakers and academicians in the International Conference on VLSI, Communication, Analog Designs, Signals and Systems, and Networking (VCASAN-2013), organized by B.N.M. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India during July 17-19, 2013. The book provides global trends in cutting-edge technologies in electronics and communication engineering. The content of the book is useful to engineers, researchers and academicians as well as industry professionals.

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Veena S. Chakravarthi is presently a Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering at B.N.M. Institute of Technology (BNMIT), Bangalore, India. She obtained her PhD in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University in 2008. Dr. Chakravarthi has over two decades of semiconductor industry experience in managing design and development of large multiprocessor SoCs. She has to her credit 6 multiprocessor multimillion gate tapeouts and over 20 silicon-proven IP core designs. She is engaged in teaching undergraduate/post graduate students and has been teaching courses like Analog and Mixed VLSI Design, SOC Design, VLSI Design Verification and Embedded Systems. Her areas of research interest include VLSI design and testing, VLSI and embedded systems, low-power ASIC design, EPON technology, Bluetooth, and wireless LAN. She has published 16 research papers in national and international level conferences. She has served as a PON consultant to Ikanos Communications for their PON product developments and also as a consultant to Pereira Ventures, US. She is an Associate Member of the IEEE and Technical Member of IACSIT (International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology).

Yasha Jyothi M. Shirur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at BNMIT, Bangalore. She completed her master's degree in Electronics Engineering in 2004 from BMS College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India. She is currently pursuing PhD in the field of DFT for Asynchronous Dominant SoCs at ECE research centre, BNMIT, Bangalore. She has more than 15 years of academics experience. Her areas of research include validation, testing and on-chip process parameter sensing on VLSI chips. She has to her credit two technical papers in national conferences and one in international conference. She has been teaching different subjects like ASIC Design, Analog and Mixed Mode Design, CMOS VLSI Design,Information Theory and Coding, Transmission Lines and Waveguides, Cryptography, Digital Communication, Network Analysis and Linear Integrated Circuits and Applications for undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education.

Rekha P. is an Associate Professor of Telecommunication Engineering at BNMIT, Bangalore. She holds a master's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bangalore University and BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore. Presently, she is pursuing PhD in sensing technology (gas sensing) under Visvesvaraya Technological University. Mrs. Rekha has more than 10 years of teaching experience and has been teaching courses like Logic Design, Microwaves and Radar, Transmission Lines and Antennas, Computer Networks and Fundamentals of HDL. Her areas of research interest include advanced materials, environment monitoring and VLSI. She is a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education.

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Leveraging Today's Innovation for Tomorrow's Success: Connecting the World from Cloud Data Centers to Consumer's Tablets.- Technology for SMART Home.- Industry Trends and EDA Tool Vendor Readiness for New Inventions in Chip Design.- Semiconductor Technology Enabling Smart Electronics.- Advent of Internet 2.0 and its Implications on the Semiconductor Industry.- Retracing a Humble Path BNM Institute of Technology.- Platform SOC for SMART Home.- Electronics and Digital Computing Techniques for Images and Image Processing.- System Verilog Based SOC Verification Environment for Flash Memory.- Behavioral Modeling of LDO.- Regulated Cascode Preamplifier Based Frontend Readout ASIC ANUSPARSH for Resistive Plate Chamber Detector.- Fault Tolerant Reversible Logic for Combinational Circuits: A Survey.- A CMOS Standard Cell Based Time-to-Digital Converter.- Task Migration For 3x3 Tile Based NOC Architecture.- Design and Implementation of an Efficient Multiplier using Vedic Mathematics and Charge Recovery logic.- Error Detection and Correction in Embedded Memories using Cyclic Code.- Determining Standard Cell Drive Strength Based on On-Chip Load Assessment.- Design of 12-Bit Cyclic Vernier Ring Time-to-Digital Converter.- Adder Based Address Generation for Embedded MBIST.- Circuit design Methodologies for Test Power Reduction in Nano Scaled Technologies.- Study of continuous Non-linear FM Pulse Compression Technique.- Performance Evaluation of New Multi Level Spreading Codes For Synchronous DS CDMA Communication.- A Novel Method for Construction of Structured Regular LDPC Codes with Girth Twelve using Gray Code Representations.- Neuro-Curvelet Model for Efficient Image Compression using Vector Quantization.- A Novel Design of Narrowband Band-pass filters on PTFE Laminate using Radial Stubs.- The Design and Simulation of 0.5dB Noise-Figure RF Narrowband LNA.- Design & Development of DC-DC Converter System to Drive a PZT Stack Actuator.- Development of Technique for Making Ohmic Contacts to PEDOT-PSS Films.- A Comparative Study of Performance of Ring Resonator and Disk Resonator in Gas Sensing Applications.- Simulation and Optimization of Channel Mobility in High-k / Metal Gate Nano Scale MOSFETs.- An Improved Artificial Neural Network Based Emotion Classification System for Expressive Facial Images.- DSP-FPGA Based Parallel Architecture for Acquisition and Compression of Instrumented Pipeline Inspection Gauge Data in Real Time.- A Contourlet Transform-Based Versatile Watermarking Algorithm for Medical Images.- Application of Wavelet Shrinkage Denoising Method Based on Genetic Algorithm to Partial Discharge Signals.- Automatic Image Mosaicing using Discrete Cosine Transform.- Visual Cryptography for Color Images with Meaningful Shares using Image Fusion Technique.- Automatic Detection of Microaneurysms from Fundus Images using Morphological Operations.- AERB SG D-25 and IEC 60880 for Certification of Software in Safety Systems of Indian NPP.- Selective Rotation Based CORDIC Architecture for High Speed Applications.- Bio-Inspired Image Processing for Contour Enhancement and Fourier Spectrum Model for Orientation and Motion Detection.- Efficient Color Image Retrieval with Selective Relevance Feedback.- Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of Speech Signals.- A Survey on Gaze Estimation Techniques.- Handwritten Script Recognition using DCT, Gabor Filter and Wavelet Features at Word Level.- Word Based LID using HMM and Bigram Modeling.- Discrimination of Handwritten and Machine Printed Text in Scanned Document Images.- Harmonic Analysis and its Elimination in Non Linear Loads using Wavelet Transform.- Lanczos Resampling for the Digital Processing of Remotely Sensed Images.- Performance Analysis of Adaptive DOA Estimation Algorithms for Mobile Applications.- Design of Security Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Attack Behavior: Proactive Approach.- Ingress Flow Based Triple Token Bucket Traffic Control System for Distributed Networks.- Analgorithm to find Minimal Cut-Sets of Complex Network.- IPv6 Based Network Performance metrics using Active Measurements.- A Survey of Virtualization Techniques in Cloud Computing.