Introduction to the Special Issue on the 38th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)

The July 2013 Special Issue of IEEE Journal Of Solid-State Circuits presents papers from the 38th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). In the first paper, Meyvaert and co-researchers present a fully integrated 265 input AC-DC interface in 0.35 μm CMOS technology, requiring only one optional external low voltage SMD capacitor for improved performance and capable of directly interfacing the universal line voltage and outputting a regulated DC voltage of 3.3 V. The next paper, by Masuch and colleagues present an RF energy harvester embedded in a low-power transceiver front-end in 130 nm CMOS. Lee and Verma present a paper demonstrating a low-power processor with configurable embedded machine-learning accelerators for high-order and adaptive analysis of medical-sensor signals. Carballido and researchers present a portable a flexible and portable digital framework for Built-in Self-Test (BIST) and calibration of RF/analog circuitry.