This Symposium explores emerging trends and novel ideas and concepts in the area of VLSI The Symposium covers a range of topics from VLSI circuits, systems and design methods to system level design and system on chip issues, to bringing VLSI experience to new areas and technologies Future design methodologies as well as new CAD tools to support them will also be the key topics ISVLSI 2018 highlights a special theme of Internet of Things Over almost two decades the Symposium has been a unique forum promoting multidisciplinary research and new visionary approaches in the area of VLSI.