Low-Voltage Mixed-Signal CMOS Integrated Circuits for Emerging Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Circuit and Signal Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 57
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mixed-signal integrated circuits; sensor interfaces; voltage references; current references; data converters; oscillators; cryogenic CMOS
Interests: MEMS devices; integrated sensors/actuators; sensor interfaces; mixed-signal integrated circuits
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Dear Colleagues,
Emerging electronic application fields have created a clear need for novel architectures and design methods that allow for mixed-signal integrated circuits to reliably operate in low-supply voltage conditions, ranging from just below one volt to a few hundred millivolts. Low-voltage operation is crucial to enable low-cost smart sensing systems for Internet of Things modules, wearable and implantable medical devices, and environmental monitoring nodes, often meant to operate relying only on low and inconstant energy-harvested supplies. Furthermore, low-supply conditions are pursued to optimize the efficiency of digital circuits in power-constrained applications. Finally, beyond these contexts, low-voltage design principles are also relevant to emerging cryogenic applications, such as space exploration, quantum computing and quantum sensing; due to the increase in MOSFET threshold voltage at cryogenic temperatures, reductions in the available voltage headroom and design strategies originally developed for low-voltage scenarios are highly applicable. Across such a diverse application framework, conventional circuit blocks find limited use, while inverter-like architectures, body-driving techniques, and deep-subthreshold biasing arise as the prevailing design strategies. This Special Issue seeks to explore circuit topologies and design methods, spanning both analog and digital domains, aiming to optimize integrated circuits for low-voltage low-power applications and foster advancements in next-generation electronic technologies. This Special Issues welcomes both original research articles and reviews that focus on, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Low-voltage analog and mixed-signal circuit blocks, including amplifiers, comparators, reference circuits, data converters, etc.;
- Digital circuits optimized for low-voltage and/or low-power applications;
- Low-power Internet of Things modules;
- Smart sensing devices;
- Wearable and implantable medical devices;
- Cryogenic CMOS circuits deploying techniques originally devised for low-voltage scenarios.
Dr. Francesco Gagliardi
Dr. Massimo Piotto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrated circuit
- low voltage
- low power
- inverter-like
- body driving
- subthreshold
- sensor node
- wearable devices
- Internet of Things
- cryo-CMOS
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