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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...

Incorrect sensor readings can cause serious problems in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), potentially disrupting the operation of the entire system. As shown in the literature, they can arise from various reasons; therefore, addressing this issue has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Demand side management is a critical issue in the energy sector. Recent events such as the global energy crisis, costs, the necessity to reduce greenhouse emissions, and extreme weather conditions have increased the need for energy efficiency. Thus,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The cart-pole application is a well-known control application that is often used to illustrate reinforcement learning algorithms with conventional neural networks. An implementation of the application from OpenAI Gym is ubiquitous and popular. Spikin...

This study describes a high-performance second-generation Current Conveyor (CCII) operating at 0.35 V and achieving rail-to-rail operation at the Y terminal and class AB current drive at the X and Z terminals. The solution utilizes a low-voltage subt...

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of an excitable membrane of a biological system by proposing a novel approach that the cells of the excitable membrane can be modeled as the networks of memristors. We provide compelling evidence from the Chay...

This manuscript shows the CMOS design of Lorenz systems using operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs). Two Lorenz systems are then synchronized in a master–slave topology and used to implement a CMOS secure communication system. The cont...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Microcontroller units (MCUs) serve as the core components of embedded systems. In the era of smart IoT, embedded devices are increasingly deployed on mobile platforms, leading to a growing demand for low-power consumption. As a result, low-power tech...

A programmable, energy-efficient analog hardware implementation of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) is presented featuring a highly programmable system that offers the user the capability to create an MLP neural network hardware design within the availa...

The non-ideality aspects of phase change memory (PCM) such as drift and resistance variability can pose significant obstacles in neuromorphic hardware implementations. A unique drift and variability compensation strategy is demonstrated and implement...

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...

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...

This paper presents a novel transistor-level design of a modified second-generation voltage conveyor (VCII), which incorporates two differential current inputs (Y+ and Y−) and gives a voltage output at terminal X that mirrors the sum of these c...

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...

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...

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...

Digital-based differential amplifiers (DDA) are particularly suitable to low voltage digital integrated circuit technologies. This paper presents an exhaustive analysis of digital-based analog amplifiers to take advantage of today’s high-perfor...

A low-power, low-voltage universal multi-mode Gm-C filter using a 180 nm TSMC technology node is presented in this paper. The proposed filter employs only three transconductance operational amplifiers (OTAs) operating in the sub-threshold region with...

In this paper, a NOR2 standard-cell-based dynamic comparator providing rail-to-rail input common mode range (ICMR) is presented, together with a novel standard-cell oriented design methodology. The proposed topology provides better speed performance...

Inkjet-printed circuits on flexible substrates are rapidly emerging as a key technology in flexible electronics, driven by their minimal fabrication process, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. Recent advancements in inkjet-printed...

XSPICE models for a generic transmission line, a microstrip line, and coupled microstrips are presented. The developed models extend general-purpose circuit simulation tools using RF circuits design features. The models could be used for circuit simu...

This work presents a nano-watt digital output temperature sensor featuring a supply-insensitive, self-biased current source. Second-order temperature dependencies of the MOS diode are canceled to produce a stable reference and a linear temperature-se...

Domain-specific systems on chip (DSSoCs) aim to narrow the gap between general-purpose processors and application-specific designs. CPU clusters enable programmability, whereas hardware accelerators tailored to the target domain minimize task executi...

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...

The electrooculogram (EOG) is one of the most significant signals carrying eye movement information, such as blinks and saccades. There are many human–computer interface (HCI) applications based on eye blinks. For example, the detection of eye...

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...

This paper presents a power-aware Reconfigurable Parameterizable Pseudorandom Pattern Generator (RP-PRPG) for a number of applications, including built in self-testing (BIST) and cryptography. Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs) are broadly utili...

As power electronics continue to advance, the demand for highly efficient and low-loss DC/DC converters has grown significantly. This article comprehensively analyses ZCS quasi-resonant switch cell losses and efficiency in buck L-type zero-current sw...

Portable and wearable sensors have gained attention in recent years to perform measurements in many different applications. Sensors based on Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) are particularly promising, because they can make accurate measuremen...

In this work, a cylindrical gate-all-around junctionless field effect transistor (JLFET) was investigated. Junctions and doping concentration gradients are unavailable in JLFET. According to the results, the suggested device has a novel architecture...

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) enables efficient, contactless charging for mobile devices by eliminating mechanical connectors and wiring, thereby enhancing user experience and device longevity. However, conventional WPT systems remain prone to perfor...

In this paper, a wideband VCO that covers popular Long-Term Evolution (LTE) 0.7 GHz and LTE 2.6 GHz frequencies is designed and developed in a standard 0.18 μm CMOS process. The VCO utilizes active inductors to achieve coarse-tuning of the inducta...

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...