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Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, Volume 16, Issue 1

2026 March - 10 articles

Cover Story: As portable systems increasingly supply heterogeneous loads, maintaining high end-to-end power efficiency is a major challenge to extend the lifetime of the system. This paper introduces a novel approach to maximize end-to-end power delivery in hierarchical power delivery units (PDUs). By combining a tailored Q-learning algorithm with power gating and the model of the system, the PDU dynamically manages multiple DC–DC converters without requiring complex measurement circuitry. The autonomous Q-agent adapts in real-time to varying conditions, selecting the optimal power path. Validated across realistic IoT scenarios, this architecture achieves up to 13% higher power efficiency than static PDU whilst maintaining a runtime under 60 ms in all benchmarks. View this paper
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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,280 Views
13 Pages

This paper presents a secure 2.4 GHz frequency shift keying (FSK) transmitter front-end with minimal overhead on the data stream using analog obfuscation techniques applied to the modulated waveform. An off-chip true random number generator (TRNG) un...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Integrated Circuit Design and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,161 Views
19 Pages

Efficient Energy Consumption: Leveraging AI Models for Appliance Detection

  • Gerardo Arno Sonck-Martinez,
  • Victor A. Gonzalez-Huitron,
  • Abraham Efraím Rodríguez-Mata,
  • Isidro Robledo-Vega and ,
  • Guillermo Valencia-Palomo and
  • Jose-Agustin Almaraz-Damian
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This research addresses the increasing need for efficient energy management in residential settings in response to the increasing global energy demands, focusing on the integration of artificial intelligence to identify energy burdens. We employ and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Consumption Management in Electronic Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,098 Views
35 Pages

In the post-Moore’s Law era, conventional Von Neumann architectures face critical limitations, such as the “memory wall” and excessive power consumption, particularly when processing unstructured data. Neuromorphic computing, inspir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,385 Views
17 Pages

In this work, the authors introduce an entirely solar-powered LoRa-based WSN consisting of several nodes, two stoplights, and four cameras. The system has been used to monitor the semi-rural area of Panni (FG), Puglia, Italy. The WSN has a totally cu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of IOT on Manufacturing, Communication and Engineering, 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,581 Views
29 Pages

A new approach to end-to-end power delivery for increasingly sought-after hierarchical power delivery units (PDUs) is presented, improving the power efficiency of portable systems. The benefits of the technique are demonstrated through a PDU comprisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,228 Views
15 Pages

This paper examines the implementation and resource utilization of Cascaded Integrator Comb (CIC) filters within FPGA-based Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) microphone applications. Three CIC filter designs were analyzed: one generated using MATLAB&rsq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ultra-Low-Power ICs for the Internet of Things (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,777 Views
19 Pages

RSSI-Based Localization of Smart Mattresses in Hospital Settings

  • Yeh-Liang Hsu,
  • Chun-Hung Yi,
  • Shu-Chiung Lee and
  • Kuei-Hua Yen

(1) Background: In hospitals, mattresses are often relocated for cleaning or patient transfer, leading to mismatches between actual and recorded bed locations. Manual updates are time-consuming and error-prone, requiring an automatic localization sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,038 Views
14 Pages

Exploring Runtime Sparsification of YOLO Model Weights During Inference

  • Tanzeel-ur-Rehman Khan,
  • Sanghamitra Roy and
  • Koushik Chakraborty

In the pursuit of real-time object detection with constrained computational resources, the optimization of neural network architectures is paramount. We introduce novel sparsity induction methods within the YOLOv4-Tiny framework to significantly impr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,760 Views
23 Pages

SparseDroop: Hardware–Software Co-Design for Mitigating Voltage Droop in DNN Accelerators

  • Arnab Raha,
  • Shamik Kundu,
  • Arghadip Das,
  • Soumendu Kumar Ghosh and
  • Deepak A. Mathaikutty

Modern deep neural network (DNN) accelerators must sustain high throughput while avoiding performance degradation from supply voltage (VDD) droop, which occurs when large arrays of multiply–accumulate (MAC) units switch concurrently and induce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,502 Views
14 Pages

Hardware-Friendly and Efficient Vision Transformer for Deployment on Low-Power Embedded Device

  • Ziyang Chen,
  • Ming Hao,
  • Xinye Cao,
  • Jingwei Zhang and ,
  • Chaoyao Shen,
  • Guoqing Li and
  • Meng Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The Transformer architecture has achieved remarkable success across numerous computer vision tasks due to its superior capability for global dependency modeling. However, the high computational complexity and hardware-unfriendly operations such as La...

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J. Low Power Electron. Appl. - ISSN 2079-9268