SoC 2013 is the 15th SoC event, building on the tradition of a series of SoC events organized in Tampere, Finland annually since 1999. It consists of invited talks, contributed scientific papers, special sessions, and a commercial exhibit with its own industrial program track. The symposium also features a panel discussion on topics of high interest to the System-on-Chip community, and a pre-conference tutorial on October 22. The mission of SoC 2013 is to provide a forum that is fully and comprehensively dedicated to SoC.