Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Circuit and Signal Processing".

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Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: CMOS; PLL; ADC; RFIC; VCO; IoT

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The development of ultra-scaled integrated technologies has paved the way to the integration of complex electronic systems in a reduced area, while maintaining a low power consumption.

In fact, mobile devices are now competitive in terms of both computational performance and efficiency. We are witnessing the rise of edge-computing devices and a consequent increase in interest towards all circuit architectures and electron devices able to break the performance–power consumption trade-off.

Digital algorithms to fix analog impairments, low-power frequency synthesizers, efficient digital power amplifiers, high-resolution ADCs and DACs, hardware-synthesized neural networks, wake-up radio, and low-power computing techniques are the foundation of the Internet of Things revolution.

In this context, this Special Issue aims to examine the recent breakthroughs in electron devices and solid-state circuits and the next design challenges that should be faced in the edge-computing era.

Manuscripts are solicited on topics related but not limited to the following:

  1. CMOS and SOI technology for low-power design, modelling and methodology issues and solutions.
  2. Power-consumption-aware analog and digital design.
  3. Analysis and comparison among efficient digital algorithms for edge data manipulation.
  4. Comparison or proposal of new architectures for low-power transceivers.
  5. Analysis and efficiency optimization of system blocks of transceivers (PLL, VCO, DPA, ADC, DAC, etc.).
  6. Methodologies for optimized hardware for neural networks in edge computing. Manuscripts may either present original research results or comprehensive reviews on specific topics in the field of Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits.

Dr. Luca Bertulessi
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Keywords

  • CMOS
  • SOI
  • PLL
  • ADC
  • DAC
  • RFIC
  • BLE
  • DPA
  • VCO
  • IoT
  • edge computing
  • hardware neural networks

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A 200 kb/s 36 µw True Random Number Generator Based on Dual Oscillators for IOT Security Application
by Chengying Chen, Shuhui Li and Changkun Song
Electronics 2023, 12(10), 2332; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12102332 - 22 May 2023
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Abstract
As a module of the internet of things (IOT) information security system, the true random number generator (TRNG) plays an important role in overall performance. In this paper, a low-power TRNG based on dual oscillators is proposed. Two high-frequency cross-coupled oscillators are used [...] Read more.
As a module of the internet of things (IOT) information security system, the true random number generator (TRNG) plays an important role in overall performance. In this paper, a low-power TRNG based on dual oscillators is proposed. Two high-frequency cross-coupled oscillators are used to generate high-jitter clock signals, and then the SR latch with power supply below standard power supply voltage is adopted to process the oscillator output to maintain its metastability and increase jitter. The circuit is realized by an SMIC 180 nm 1P6M mixed-signal process. The experimental results show that when power supply voltage is 1.8 V, the circuit outputs a random number bit rate of 200 kb/s, the core area is 0.0039 mm2, and the power consumption is only 36 µw. The output random sequences can pass the NIST SP 800-22 test. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits)
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