Advances in Adaptive Ultra-Low-Power Electronics

Dear Colleagues,

Ultra-low-power (ULP) electronics are a key enabler for many technological advances today, including smart homes, smart cities, smart agriculture, and medical devices to name a few. In particular, ULP electronics are vital for heavily resource-constrained systems, such as wearable electronics and implantable devices.

The advances in low-power designs, such as those of devices, circuits, architectures, and systems, have driven improvements. However, breakthroughs bridging the ideas from multiple areas are also often necessary to reach the target performance goals with limited power budgets. These breakthroughs can be especially impactful when they use information from different fields to adapt to the changing conditions and the characteristics of each application.

This Special Issue invites contributions in adaptive ULP electronics for sensing, actuating, amplification, signal conditioning, and data converters, which incorporate insights from multiple fields. For instance, circuits that take advantage of the temporal and spectral properties of signals, such as burstiness, bandwidth limitations, and predictability, are especially welcomed.  Contributions with applications to wearable and medical devices are also encouraged. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

- Adaptive analog filters, amplifiers, and voltage regulators;

- Adaptive biasing amplifiers;

- Adaptive analog techniques for signal processing;

- Novel adaptive data converter architectures;

- Level-crossing analog-to-digital converters and continuous time-signal processing;

- Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques for adaptive circuit design and calibration;

- Domain-specific low-power analog circuit synthesis;

- Bioinspired adaptive circuit architectures;

- Biomedical applications of ULP adaptive electronics;

- Adaptive sensors and actuators.

Dr. N. Sertac Artan
Guest Editor

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• ultra-low-power electronics, analog circuits
• data converters
• analog signal processing
• machine learning for circuit design and calibration
• bioinspired circuits
• biomedical circuits
• ASIC
• VLSI
• adaptive sensing and actuation