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This book is devoted to the optimization in the process of computer aided design of VLSI circuits (electronic systems). While for the first thirty years of the electronic age designers had considered performance optimization as the primary goal in the circuit design in the last years power dissipation has become a major concern. Designing intergrated systems with low-power consumption is recently of main interest because of the ever-increasing density of solid-state electronic devices, where environmental factors, like heat dissipation, may pose a practical limit to the use of high-performance processors if the power consumption is not controlled and limited. This book is an excellent monograph on the optimization of the power consumption in the process of computer-aided design. It can serve as a textbook for students interested in computer science and computer engineering as well as for experts interested in the research and development in this area. The fundamental concepts of the dynamic power management are presented on all levels of the design hierarchy ranging from the logic level to the algorithmic (system) level.