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IoT applications revolutionize industries by enhancing operations, enabling data-driven decisions, and fostering innovation. This study explores the growing potential of IoT-based facial recognition for mobile devices, a technology rapidly advancing...

Smart lighting control systems represent an advanced approach to reducing energy use. These systems leverage advanced technology to provide users with better control over their lighting, allowing them to manually, remotely, and automatically modify t...

This paper provides a short review of sustainable hybrid energy harvesting and its applications. The potential usage of self-powered wireless sensor (WSN) systems has recently drawn a lot of attention to sustainable energy harvesting. The objective o...

In considering projections that flooding will increase in the future years due to factors such as climate change and urbanization, the need for dependable and accurate water sensors systems is greater than ever. In this study, the performance of four...

This article presents the design and optimization of a tunable quadrature differential LC CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with a D flip-flop (DFF) frequency divider. The VCO is designed for the low-power and low-phase-noise applications of 2...

This paper presents a systematic approach to extract electrical equivalent circuit model (ECM) parameters of the Li-ion battery (LIB) based on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Particularly, the proposed approach is suitable to practical...

Wireless short-range communication has become widespread in the modern era, partly due to the advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart technology. This technology is now utilized in various sectors, including lighting, medical, and indus...

Across the globe, COVID-19 had far-reaching impacts that included healthcare facilities, public health, as well as all forms of transport. Hospitals were experiencing staffing shortages at the same time as patients were experiencing healthcare issues...

The demand for computing power has been growing exponentially with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). This growth requires unconventional computing primitives that prioritize energy efficienc...

This paper presents a novel inductorless dual-mode buck-boost charge pump (CP) based DC-DC converter. The proposed architecture allows the same circuit to accomplish two modes of operation, buck and boost, for degrading or elevating the output voltag...

The application of the flipped voltage follower to implement two high-performance circuits is presented: (1) The first is a class AB cascode flipped voltage follower that shows an improved slew rate and an improved bandwidth by very large factors and...

Current sensors play a vital role in power systems, industrial production, smart devices and other fields, which can provide critical current information in the systems for the safety and efficiency managements. The development of magneto-resistive e...

A low-power and low-jitter 1.2 GHz Integer-N PLL (INPLL) is designed in a 65 nm standard CMOS process. A novel high-gain sampling phase detector (PD), which takes advantage of a transconductance (Gm) cell to boost the gain, is developed to increase t...

Edge devices execute pre-trained Artificial Intelligence (AI) models optimized on large Graphical Processing Units (GPUs); however, they frequently require fine-tuning when deployed in the real world. This fine-tuning, referred to as edge learning, i...

A Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is realized within a 65 nm CMOS process to demonstrate the feasibility of its constituent cells. Analog hardware neural networks have shown improved energy efficiency in edge computing for real-time-inference applicatio...

This paper addresses the design of ultra-wideband (UWB) impedance matching networks operating in the unlicensed 3.1–10.6 GHz frequency band for low-power applications. It improves the simplified real frequency technique (SRFT) by adding a reali...

Hybrid magnetic tunnel junction/complementary metal oxide semiconductor (MTJ/CMOS) circuits based on in-memory-computation (IMC) architecture is considered as the next-generation candidate for the digital integrated circuits. However, the energy cons...

Transformers have emerged as the central backbone architecture for modern generative AI. However, most ML applications targeting low-power, low-cost SoCs (TinyML apps) do not employ Transformers as these models are thought to be challenging to quanti...

The shrinking of technology nodes allows higher performance, but susceptibility to soft errors increases. The protection has been implemented mainly by lockstep or hardened process techniques, which results in a lower frequency, a larger area, and hi...

This study presents a hard-switching full-bridge DC-DC converter with synchronous rectification based on Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors to evaluate the advantages of GaN devices in power supplies. In comparison to traditional silicon-based devices...

This paper presents a high-efficiency piezoelectric energy harvesting and management circuit utilizing a full-bridge rectifier (FBR) designed for powering wireless sensor nodes. The circuit comprises a rectifier bridge, a fully CMOS-based reference s...

In the realm of autonomous vehicle technology, the multimodal vehicle detection network (MVDNet) represents a significant leap forward, particularly in the challenging context of weather conditions. This paper focuses on the enhancement of MVDNet thr...

Light Fidelity (LiFi) technology has gained attention and is growing rapidly today. Utilizing light as a propagation medium allows LiFi to promise a wider bandwidth than existing Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) technology and enables the implementation of c...

A novel low-power MOS-only voltage reference is presented. The Enz–Krummenacher–Vittoz (EKV) model is adopted to provide a new perspective on the operating principle. The normalized charge density, introduced as a new variable, serves as...

In the industrial and sales processes, dosing systems of various constructions, whose operation is based on mechanical vibrations (vibratory feeders), are very often used. These systems face many problems, such as resonant frequency, flow instability...

Embedded memories occupy an increasingly dominant part of the area and power budgets of modern systems-on-chips (SoCs). Multi-ported embedded memories, commonly used by media SoCs and graphical processing units, occupy even more area and consume high...

Recently, there has been a huge advancement in renewable energy integration in power systems. Power converters with grid-forming or grid-following topologies are typically employed to link these decentralized power sources to the grid. However, becau...

Drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce as the world’s population grows and climate change continues. However, there is great potential to improve drinking water pipelines, as 30% of fresh water is lost between the supplier and consumer....

Wireless sensor networks are at the center of scientific interest thanks to their ever-growing range of applications. The main weakness of wireless sensor networks is the restricted lifetime of their sensor nodes due to limited energy capacity. The e...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are rising in the automotive industry, replacing combustion engines and increasing their global market presence. These vehicles offer zero emissions during operation and more straightforward maintenance. However, for such syst...

The design of analog computing systems requires significant human resources and domain expertise due to the lack of automation tools to enable these highly energy-efficient, high-performance computing nodes. This work presents the first automated too...

This work presents a two-stage operational transconductance amplifier suitable for sub-1 V operation. This characteristic is achieved thanks to the adoption of a bulk-driven non-tailed differential pair. Local positive feedback is exploited to boost...

This paper is an extended version of a previously reported conference paper regarding a low-power design for NAND Flash. As the number of bits per NAND Flash die increases with cost scaling, the IO data path speed increases to minimize the page acces...

In this work, a first-order low-pass filter is proposed as suitable for time-mode PWM signal processing. In time-mode PWM signal processing, the pulse width of a rectangular pulse is the processing variable. The filter is constructed using basic time...

In this paper, a novel dynamic body-driven ultra-low voltage (ULV) comparator is presented. The proposed topology takes advantage of the back-gate configuration by driving the input transistors’ gates with a clocked positive feedback loop made...

Low-power portable devices play a major role in IoT applications, where the analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are very important components for the processing of analog signals. In this paper, a 5-bit two-step flash ADC with a low-power double-tail...

Citizen science reinforces the development of emergent tools for the surveillance, monitoring, and early detection of biological invasions, enhancing biosecurity resilience. The contribution of farmers and farm citizens is vital, as volunteers can st...

MEMS resonators have attracted attention for their wide applications in highly accurate clock references, sensors, wireless communications, frequency control, etc. Most of the output frequencies of MEMS resonators require post-processing or calibrati...

A low-power delay-locked loop (DLL)-based frequency multiplier is presented. The multiplier is designed in 22 nm FDSOI and achieves 8× multiplication. The proposed DLL uses a new simple duty cycle correction circuit and is XOR logic-based for f...

This paper presents a multiplexer-based extended range multi-modulus divider (ER-MMD) technique for multi-band phase locked loop (PLL). The architecture maintains a modular structure by using conventional $2/3$ divider cells and a multiplexer without a...

The primary functions of an energy harvesting system include the harvesting, transformation, management, and storage of energy. Until now, various types of energy, with different power levels, have been harvested and stored by the energy harvesting s...

Array-designed triboelectric nanogenerators (AD-TENGs) have firmly established themselves as state-of-the-art technologies for adeptly converting mechanical interactions into electrical signals. Central to the AD-TENG’s prowess is its inherent...

Edge AI accelerators are utilized to accelerate the computation in edge AI devices such as image recognition sensors on robotics, door lockers, drones, and remote sensing satellites. Instead of using a general-purpose processor (GPP) or graphic proce...

Biologging refers to the use of animal-borne recording devices to study wildlife behavior. In the case of audio recording, such devices generate large amounts of data over several months, and thus require some level of processing automation for the r...

This work details the design and experimental characterization of a 2D rectenna for scavenging radio frequency energy at 2.45 GHz (WiFi band), fabricated on polylactic acid polymer (PLA) using a plastronics approach. PLA is the RF substrate of both a...

A power management unit (PMU) is an essential block for diversified multi-functional low-power Internet of Things (IoT) and biomedical electronics. This paper includes a theoretical analysis of a high current, single-stage ac-dc, reconfigurable, dual...

This paper presents a capacitively coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) with ultra-low power consumption and programmable bandwidth for biomedical applications. To achieve a flexible bandwidth from 0.2 to 10 kHz without additional power c...

In this work, we present an efficient Processing in MRAM-Accelerated De Bruijn Graph-based DNA Assembly platform, named PANDA, based on an optimized and hardware-friendly genome assembly algorithm. PANDA is able to assemble large-scale DNA sequence d...

This study presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of field-programmable gate array (FPGA), graphics processing unit (GPU), and central processing unit (CPU) platforms for implementing finite impulse response (FIR) filters in semiconductor-ba...

Although Moore’s Law reaches its limits, it has never applied to analog and RF circuits. For example, due to the short channel effect (SCE), drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL), and sub-threshold slope (SS)…, longer transistors are req...