Integrated Circuit and System Design for Smart Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

Integrated circuits and systems are unambiguous parts of modern sensors and, in some cases, co-integrated with them on the same silicon die. The advancement of integration technology allows us to implement sophisticated signal conditioning and processing techniques around the actual sensing element in both the analog and digital domains. This has opened the way for intelligent and Internet of Things sensors of miniature size, with signal processing and feature extraction (Edge AI) as well as wireless communication capabilities. Smart sensing is essential in many modern devices and applications, such as in cellphones, autonomous cars and vessels, household appliances, health monitoring, industrial equipment control systems, environmental probing and field detection, and many others.

The Special Issue “Integrated Circuit and System Design for Smart Sensors” focuses on the development of advanced sensor front-end integrated circuit architectures and implementations, aiming towards a wide variety of applications. Both original research and survey (review) papers are welcomed.

Topics of interest and applications for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Analog/digital integrated circuits for smart sensors.
• Analog data signal conditioning circuits.
• In-and-near memory processing for edge computing.
• Ultra-low power, sub-threshold sensor’s circuits.
• Biologically inspired sensor circuits and systems.
• Low-cost wearable sensor circuits and systems.
• Flexible integrated circuits and systems for sensors.
• Integrated sensors for predictive maintenance.
• IoT sensor circuits and systems.
• Intelligent (AI) sensor circuits and systems.
• Radar/RF/acoustic sensor circuits and systems.
• Integrated sensors for medical and automotive applications.
• Integrated sensors for control and automation applications.

Experimental or simulation results validating the proposed architecture or system are required.

Best regards,

Dr. Paul P. Sotiriadis
Dr. Christos Dimas
Guest Editors

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