Advanced Design and Electronic Design Automation Techniques of Analog and RF Integrated Circuits for Sensor Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 1051
Special Issue Editors
Interests: very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) design automation; analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design; digital circuit and system design; MEMS design and design automation; microfluidics and biosensors; wireless sensor networks; computer-based instrumentation; microelectronics and computer applications in ocean and biomedical engineering; computer peripherals
Interests: CMOS analog and mixed-signal circuits; design and modeling of clock generation circuits; ultra-low-power transceiver design; design methodologies for Gbps wireline transceivers
Interests: analog, RF and mmWave IC design automation; deep nanometer integration technologies; integrated circuits’ layout; applied soft computing; machine and deep learning
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Sensors, titled “Advanced Design and Electronic Design Automation Techniques of Analog and RF Integrated Circuits for Sensor Applications”, aims to showcase the latest advancements in the design and electronic design automation (EDA) techniques of analog and RF integrated circuits (ICs) specifically tailored for sensor applications.
Analog and RF ICs play a crucial role in sensor systems by enabling the conversion, amplification, and processing of signals from various sensors, thereby facilitating accurate and reliable measurement and detection. As sensor technologies continue to evolve, and in turn the demand for high-performance and low-power ICs keeps increasing, it becomes imperative to explore innovative IC design methodologies and EDA techniques that address the unique challenges associated with sensor applications.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel circuit architectures and design methodologies for sensor interface or signal-processing ICs.
- Low-power and low-noise analog as well as RF circuit design techniques.
- Circuit techniques for improved sensor signal conditioning and digitization.
- Design of low-power, high-precision, and/or high-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) for sensor applications.
- Frequency synthesizers, phase-locked loops (PLLs), and clock generation circuits for sensor systems.
- EDA tools and methodologies for efficient design and verification of analog and RF ICs.
- Circuit- and system-level optimization techniques for power, area, and performance trade-offs in sensor ICs.
- Design challenges and solutions for emerging sensor technologies (e.g., MEMS, the IoT, and biomedical sensors).
- Test and measurement techniques for the characterization and validation of sensor ICs.
Prof. Dr. Lihong Zhang
Dr. Yushi Zhou
Dr. Ricardo Martins
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrated circuits (ICs)
- analog and radio frequency (RF)
- circuit design methodologies
- electronic design automation (EDA)
- sensor application, design, and optimization
- circuit performance and constraints
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