PVT Sensing and Compensation
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2023) | Viewed by 1125
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microelectronics power management
Interests: power and performance efficiency in SoC (systems on-a-chip); dynamic voltage and frequency scaling; IoT electronics and applications
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Interests: process voltage; temperature sensing and optimization
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Interests: security and digital circuits
Interests: cryptography; hardware security; digital circuits; IoT security
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We all have been involved in designs where the dependence on voltage, on process variations, and on temperature, also known as PVT, was a threat to the envisaged functionality of the electronic circuits being designed. However, PVT parameters can also be the control key that allows an envisaged optimization. Power optimization of digital circuits can be achieved based on dynamic voltage scaling, adjusting the supply voltage to optimize the time slack for specific process and temperature conditions. A complementary example focused on temperature can be found in the compensation of crystal oscillators with temperature being measured (TCXOs) or controlled (OCXOs). Finally, more recently, process variations can also be the key to obtain physically unclonable functions, PUFs, allowing to obtain a unique circuit identity for each device. All these application domains share the fact that, directly or indirectly, they monitor PVT and use the sensed information targeting specific goals.
We are pleased to invite you to submit an original contribution to this Special Issue on PVT Sensing and Compensation.
This Special Issue aims to join different application domains that sense and control PVT using different approaches and with different targets. By joining different domains, the corresponding approaches and mind sets, we aim to trigger thinking “out of the box”. Edited in the scope of the Sensors journal, this Special Issue targets sensors for process, voltage and/or temperature and their applications.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- PVT sensors for dynamic voltage scaling
- Aging monitors and compensation
- Physically unclonable functions and random generators
- Self-calibration/auto-trimming
- On-chip or off-chip voltage and temperature monitors
- Temperature control and/or compensation
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Marcelino Bicho dos Santos
Prof. Dr. Jorge Filipe Leal Costa Semião
Dr. Pablo Ituero
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Chaves
Prof. Dr. Elif Bilge Kavun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- PVT sensor
- Dynamic voltage scaling
- Aging
- PUF
- Auto-trim
- Temperature monitor
- TCXO
- OCXO
