Norbert Wehn holds the chair for Microlectronic System Design in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Kaiserslautern. He has published more than 130 papers in international conferences and journals in various areas of CAD and VLSI design. He is member of the board of the European Design Automation Association, chairman of the german ITG/GMM group "Rechnergestützter Schaltungs- und Systementwurf" and associate editor of the Springer Journal “Design Automation for Embedded Systems ”. In 2003 he served as program chair for DATE 2003 and as general chair for DATE 2005 respectively. He is IEEE “Golden Core Member” His special research interests are VLSI-architectures for mobile communication, low-power and on-chip communication architectures.