The focus of the February 1992 symposium in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was the design automation of VLSI systems in the 1990s. The 31 papers consider testability, placement and routing, synthesis, graph theory applications, channel and switchbox routing, VLSI design, specialized routing by minimization, simulation, Steiner trees, and clock routing. No subject index. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.