Proceedings of the 1993 Symposium March 1416, 1993, Seattle, Washington Recent advances in microelectronic technologies have enabled new architectures and applications requiring highly integrated or large-scale systems. These proceedings from the conference formerly known as the conference on Advanced Research in VLSI describe original research on issues in building integrated systems "from the chips up." Topics include: Systems issues. VLSI architectures. Circuits and devices. New technologies. Design automation.