Analog/Digital Electronic Interfaces for Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 65
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Interests: capacitive sensors for applications in microsystems; (micro)electronic circuits and systems for biomedical and wearable applications; circuits and sensors for energy harvesting; electronic engineering; sensor system
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sensors play a key role in modern technological ecosystems, enabling advanced functionalities across industrial, biomedical, environmental, and consumer applications. Despite continuous progress in sensing devices, the overall system performance is fundamentally determined by the effectiveness of the electronic interfaces that bridge the physical domain and digital processing.
In this framework, analog and digital interface circuits play a crucial and complementary role. Analog front-end remains the first and most essential electronic circuit for accurate signal acquisition, conditioning, and noise minimization, while digital techniques are increasingly leveraged for calibration, compensation, data processing, and system-level optimization. The growing integration of these domains, further driven by technology scaling and heterogeneous system integration, poses new challenges and opportunities for the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and intelligent sensor interfaces.
This Special Issue aims to provide a high-quality forum for the dissemination of recent advances, emerging trends, and innovative solutions in analog and digital electronic interfaces for sensors. Contributions addressing novel architectures, design methodologies, and application-driven implementations are particularly encouraged, with an emphasis on solutions validated through simulation and experimental results.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Analog front-end electronic circuits for sensor signal acquisition and conditioning;
- Digital architectures and algorithms for sensor interfacing;
- Mixed-signal interface circuits and system-level co-design;
- Low-noise, low-power, and high-resolution readout techniques;
- Time-based and digitally assisted analog interfaces;
- Interface circuits for MEMS, biosensors, biomedical and emerging sensing technologies;
- Calibration, self-test, and compensation techniques;
- Smart, adaptive, and reconfigurable sensor interfaces;
- System-on-chip (SoC) and system-in-package (SiP) solutions for sensors;
- Interfaces for Internet of Things (IoT) and edge sensing applications;
- Energy-efficient and autonomous sensing systems;
- Advanced modelling, simulation, and design methodologies;
- Experimental validation, prototyping, and real-world applications.
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ferri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sensor interfaces
- analog front-end circuits
- digital sensor interfaces
- mixed-signal circuits
- low-noise readout circuits
- low-power sensor interfaces
- smart sensors
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