This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers that were presented during the fourteenth edition of the IFIP TC10/WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, a global System-on-a-Chip Design & CAD conference. The 14th conference was held at the Hotel Boscolo, Nice, France (October 16-18, 2006). Previous conferences have taken place in Edinburgh, Trondheim, Vancouver, Munich, Grenoble, Tokyo, Gramado, Lisbon,...