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Electronics for Sensors, Volume 3

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 1152

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Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, University of L’Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: sensor interfaces; electronics for sensors
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Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics (DIIIE), University of L’Aquila, Via Gronchi 18, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: discrete and integrated electronic interfaces for sensors; autonomous wireless sensor networks; low-voltage low-power integrated circuits; current-mode readout techniques; electronics for industrial applications
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Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, University of L’Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Interests: portable sensors; electronics for sensors
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Following the success of the previous Special Issue Electronics for Sensors and Electronics for Sensors, Volume 2, we are pleased to announce the next in the series, entitled “Electronics for Sensors, Volume 3”.

Sensors are devices that are largely applied in daily life and in commercial applications. Sensor systems are sensors completed by suitable electronic interfaces that help to improve the overall performance. As a consequence, particular attention must be paid to designing electronics for sensors, and we must also consider the drawbacks related to technology scaling and different technology integrations.

The aim of this Special Issue is to find new possible solutions that use electronics circuits in sensors, both analog and digital, at different frequencies. Contributors are invited to present and highlight the advances and the latest novel and emergent results on this topic, showing best practices, implementations, and applications.

The Guest Editors invite you to submit an original research contribution showing the electronics circuits employed in sensors. Additionally, application-oriented and review papers are encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ferri
Dr. Gianluca Barile
Dr. Alfiero Leoni
Guest Editors

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Design of High-Speed, Low-Power Sensing Circuits for Nano-Scale Embedded Memory
by Sangheon Lee, Gwanwoo Park and Hanwool Jeong
Sensors 2024, 24(1), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24010016 - 19 Dec 2023
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This paper comparatively reviews sensing circuit designs for the most widely used embedded memory, static random-access memory (SRAM). Many sensing circuits for SRAM have been proposed to improve power efficiency and speed, because sensing operations in SRAM dominantly determine the overall speed and [...] Read more.
This paper comparatively reviews sensing circuit designs for the most widely used embedded memory, static random-access memory (SRAM). Many sensing circuits for SRAM have been proposed to improve power efficiency and speed, because sensing operations in SRAM dominantly determine the overall speed and power consumption of the system-on-chip. This phenomenon is more pronounced in the nanoscale era, where SRAM bit-cells implemented near minimum-sized transistors are highly influenced by variation effects. Under this condition, for stable sensing, the control signal for accessing the selected bit-cell (word-line, WL) should be asserted for a long time, leading to increases in the power dissipation and delay at the same time. By innovating sensing circuits that can reduce the WL pulse width, the sensing power and speed can be efficiently improved, simultaneously. Throughout this paper, the strength and weakness of many SRAM sensing circuits are introduced in terms of various aspects—speed, area, power, etc. Full article
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