IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and is in Zone 2 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Low-power high-performance VLSI design, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques and Embedded Systems Design Techniques, together about 30% of its articles. Its main subfields are Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Hardware and Architecture. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems covers design and realization of microelectronic systems using VLSI/ULSI technologies that require close collaboration among scientists and engineers in the fields of systems architecture, logic and circuit design, chips and wafer fabrication, packaging, testing and systems applications. Generation of specifications, design and verification must be performed at all abstraction levels, including the system, register-transfer, logic, circuit, transistor and process levels.To address this critical area through a common forum, the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems was founded. The editorial board, consisting of international experts, invites original papers which emphasize the novel system integration aspects of microelectronic systems, including interactions among system design and partitioning, logic and memory design, digital and analog circuit design, layout synthesis, CAD tools, chips and wafer fabrication, testing and packaging, and system level qualification. Thus, the coverage of this Transactions focuses on VLSI/ULSI microelectronic system integration.Topics of special interest include, but are not strictly limited to, the following: • System Specification, Design and Partitioning, • System-level Test, • Reliable VLSI/ULSI Systems, • High Performance Computing and Communication Systems, • Wafer Scale Integration and Multichip Modules (MCMs), • High-Speed Interconnects in Microelectronic Systems, • VLSI/ULSI Neural Networks and Their Applications, • Adaptive Computing Systems with FPGA components, • Mixed Analog/Digital Systems, • Cost, Performance Tradeoffs of VLSI/ULSI Systems, • Adaptive Computing Using Reconfigurable Components (FPGAs)

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

Editor-in-chief Mircea StanPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

3.09LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

3.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

6.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

6.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

1.04LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

95LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

148OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,788OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.61OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

4.55%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

315LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

3–6 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

ISSN

1063-8210

Electronic ISSN

1557-9999

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub