Editorial Opening of the 2022 TVLSI Editorial Year—Connecting Trends From Society to VLSI Systems
Massimo Alioto · IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 2022
The past year of 2021 has consolidated several societal courses observed in recent years, marking an unprecedented acceleration in a number of trends that have now reached their tipping point. The accelerated digitalization of human activities and outcomes has made the human side of supply chains more distributed on one hand[1]while putting an unprecedented pressure on its logistics side and mandating fundamental rethinking of its resilience–efficiency balance[2].