21 articles in this issue
Qutaiba Alasad, Jiann-Shuin Yuan and Yu Bi
The outsourcing of integrated circuit (IC) fabrication services to overseas manufacturing foundry has raised security and privacy concerns with regard to intellectual property (IP) protection as well as the integrity maintenance of the fabricated chips. O... see more
Luca Marchetti, Yngvar Berg and Mehdi Azadmehr
In this paper, we characterize and model a bidirectional front-end based on pseudo-floating gate amplifier (PFGA) for actuation and read-out of resonating sensors. The basic idea consists of swapping the power supply of the PFGA in order to change the dir... see more
Jiann-Shiun Yuan, Jie Lin, Qutaiba Alasad and Shayan Taheri
In this review article for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, important low-power design techniques for digital and mixed-signal analog–digital converter (ADC) circuits are presented. Emerging low voltage logic devices and non-volatile memories (NVMs)... see more
Alaeddin S. A. Abuabed
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Giacomo Cappon, Giada Acciaroli, Martina Vettoretti, Andrea Facchinetti and Giovanni Sparacino
Worldwide, the number of people affected by diabetes is rapidly increasing due to aging populations and sedentary lifestyles, with the prospect of exceeding 500 million cases in 2030, resulting in one of the most challenging socio-health emergencies of th... see more
Noha Hassan and Xavier Fernando
Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems use few hundred antennas to simultaneously serve large number of wireless broadband terminals. It has been incorporated into standards like long term evolution (LTE) and IEEE802.11 (Wi-Fi). Basically, ... see more
John E. Ball and Nicolas H. Younan
Radar is a technology used in many aspects of modern life, with many diverse civilian and military applications.[...]
Giovanni Crupi, Dominique M. M.-P. Schreurs and Alina Caddemi
This paper focuses on the extraction of an accurate small-signal equivalent circuit for metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). An analytical modeling approach was developed and successfully validated through the comparison between m... see more
Kasman Kasman and Vasily G. Moshnyaga
Smart praying mats are essential to help old and forgetful Muslims perform their religious needs. Due to the binary representation of pressure sensors embedded into the mat for posture identification, existing smart praying systems either use large sensin... see more
Shayan Taheri and Jiann-Shiun Yuan
Mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) play an eminent and critical role in design and development of the embedded systems leveraged within smart weapons and military systems. These ICs can be a golden target for adversaries to compromise in order to func... see more
Giacomo Muntoni, Luca Schirru, Tonino Pisanu, Giorgio Montisci, Giuseppe Valente, Francesco Gaudiomonte, Giampaolo Serra, Enrico Urru, Pierluigi Ortu and Alessandro Fanti
Space debris are orbiting objects that represent a major threat for space operations. The most used countermeasure to face this threat is, by far, collision avoidance, namely the set of maneuvers that allow to avoid a collision with the space debris. Sinc... see more
Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Dimitrios Serpanos and Howard Shrobe
In this paper, we present our results on the formal reliability analysis of the behavioral correctness of our cognitive middleware ARMET. The formally assured behavioral correctness of a software system is a fundamental prerequisite for the system’s secur... see more
Daniele Pinchera, Marco Donald Migliore, Fulvio Schettino and Gaetano Panariello
The aim of this paper is to analyze the array synthesis for 5 G massive MIMO systems in the line-of-sight working condition. The main result of the numerical investigation performed is that non-uniform arrays are the natural choice in this kind of applica... see more
Toshiaki Natsuki
This paper reviews the recent research of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) used as nanomechanical sensing elements based mainly on theoretical models. CNTs have demonstrated considerable potential as nanomechanical mass sensor and atomic force microscope (AFM) tip... see more
Eric C. Nallon, Vincent P. Schnee and Qiliang Li
A new type of chemical sensor to detect explosive related compounds has been designed and fabricated with an organic photovoltaic cell as the active element. The detection of chemical molecules is performed by optically exciting the cell while its photovo... see more
Christos P. Antonopoulos and Nikolaos S. Voros
For highly demanding scenarios such as continuous bio-signal monitoring, transmitting excessive volumes of data wirelessly comprises one of the most critical challenges. This is due to the resource limitations posed by typical hardware and communication t... see more
Zhixian Zhou and Yoke Khin Yap
Since the successful isolation of graphene a little over a decade ago, a wide variety of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials have been studied.[...]
Apostolos P. Fournaris, Lidia Pocero Fraile and Odysseas Koufopavlou
Cyber-Physical system devices nowadays constitute a mixture of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems that are meant to operate harmonically under a security critical framework. As security IT countermeasures are gradually bee... see more
Steven J Johnston and Simon J Cox
The Raspberry Pi Foundation aims to promote the teaching of Computer Science and is inspired by devices such as the ZX81 and Spectrum [1], the first home computers from the 1980s, and government backed in-school devices such as the BBC Acorn [2].[...]
Francesco Grimaccia, Federica Bonfante, Manuela Battipede, Paolo Maggiore and Edoardo Filippone
The modern aeronautical scenario has welcomed the massive diffusion of new key elements, including the Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), initially used for military purposes only. The current decade has seen RPAS ready to become a new airspace user ... see more
Vishwa Seneviratne, Arjuna Madanayake and Len T. Bruton
Antenna array-based multi-dimensional infinite-impulse response (IIR) digital beamformers are employed in a multitude of radio frequency (RF) applications ranging from electronically-scanned radar, radio telescopes, long-range detection and target trackin... see more