| 11 | -- | 14 | Daniel Gajski, Robert H. Kuhn. New VLSI Tools - Guest Editors Introduction |
| 18 | -- | 25 | Richard L. Donze, George Sporzynski. Masterimage Approach to VLSI Design |
| 26 | -- | 36 | Randy H. Katz. Managing the Chip Design Database |
| 41 | -- | 56 | Harold Brown, Christopher Tong, Gordon Foyster. Palladio: An Exploratory Environment for Circuit Design |
| 59 | -- | 70 | Donald E. Thomas, Charles Y. Hitchcock III, Thaddeus J. Kowalski, Jayanth V. Rajan, Robert A. Walker. Automatic Data Path Synthesis |
| 74 | -- | 82 | Jay R. Southard. MacPitts: An Approach to Silicon Compilation |
| 83 | -- | 87 | Stephen S. Yau, Robert W. Ritchie, Warren Semon, J. F. Traub, Andries van Dam, Stanley Winkler. Meeting the Crisis in Computer Science |