The international journal Microprocessors and Microsystems serves the professional computing and engineering community with practical papers, embracing the systems, software and hardware aspects inherent in the design and implementation of microprocessor based systems. Original papers on the design and development of state-of-the-art systems, practical systems applications and the implementation of new devices, tutorials, reviews and a focussed news digest satisfy the essential information needs of systems designers and computer engineers. Specially selected and edited Application Notes describe components, techniques and design examples which are not otherwise widely publicized. Special issues and series are devoted to topics of outstanding interest and forthcoming issues will include safety critical software, boundary scan, field programmable gate arrays and persistent systems.The coverage includes:Multiprocessor architecture and designs, distributed systems, new PC and workstation architectures, backplane buses, memory, interfacing, microprocessor development, simulation, testing, semicustom devices, programmable logic, gate arrays, design methodologies, applying CAD tools, software engineering, real-time systems, distributed systems, parallel processing, performance engineering, software reliability and metrics, operating systems, software tools, CASE, development environments, compilers, programming languages.Some of the applications covered in the journal are: embedded control, DSP, robotics, graphics and image processing, artificial intelligence and neural networks, telecommunications, medical systems, speech processing, instrumentation.Months of publication: January/February, March, April, May, June, July/August, September, October, November and December. Index bound in last issue of calendar year.