The Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS) is an important international meeting for researchers in the highly active fields of micro and nano electronics circuits and integrated systems. It provides an excellent forum to present and investigate emerging challenges in modeling, design, implementation and test of circuits and systems. This conference finds its roots on a biannual Spanish workshop on Logic Design. In 1991, it became a National Conference named "Congreso de Diseño de Circuitos Integrados" with the acronym DCIS and since 1996 has turned into an international Conference keeping the same acronym. This year, two Special Sessions are included in the program of DCIS 2014.