Innovations in special circuits, electronics and micro-electronics are the key support for a large spectrum of applications. The conference is focusing on several complementary aspects and targets the advances in each on it: signal processing and electronics for high speed processing, micro- and nano-electronics, special electronics for implantable and wearable devices, sensor related electronics focusing on low energy consumption, and special applications domains of telemedicine and ehealth, bio-systems, navigation systems, automotive systems, home-oriented electronics, bio-systems, etc. These applications led to special design and implementation techniques, reconfigurable and self-reconfigurable devices, and require particular methodologies to be integrated on already existing Internet-based communications and applications. Special care is required for particular devices intended to work directly with human body (implantable, wearable, ehealth), or in a human-close environment (telemedicine, house-oriented, navigation, automotive). The mini-size required by such devices confronted the scientists with special signal processing requirements.

CENICS 2022 continues a series of events initiated in 2008, capturing the advances on special circuits, electronics, and micro-electronics on both theory and practice, from fabrication to applications using these special circuits and systems. The topics cover fundamentals of design and implementation, techniques for deployment in various applications, and advances in signal processing.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

CENICS 2022 conference tracks:

Trends on hot research/industrial areas

Low-energy devices; Energy-efficient systems; Smart grids; Power line communication systems; Eco-batteries; Batteries and hybrid voltage suppliers; Picowatt-aware voltage devices; Self-sustaining wireless power transfer systems; High-efficiency power amplifiers; Voltage scaling applications; Internet of Things (IoT) devices; Smart building systems; Low-latency arbiters; Feedback topologies; Atmospheric turbulence-agnostic systems; Ultra-wide-band analog-to-digital converters; Audio or image signal reconstruction; Very high frequency front-end components; 5G small-cell structured mobile networks; Heterogeneous optical networks; 5G wireless and mm-Wave systems; Cognitive radars; Signal processing for crowd dynamics; Small-scale prosumers; Deep learning in compressed sensing; Biometric authentifiers; Quantum cellular automata; Cognitive communication

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

Machine learning on FPGAs; Deep learning on FPGAs; Object detection; Neural networks; Reconfigurable kernels; Cloud FPGAs; Acceleration platforms; On-chip FPGA debug Instrumentation; SDN and Core networks on FPGAs; Multi-FPGa systems; High performance; FPGAs for CAM; Real-time FPGAs; Synthesis (Data and DataFlows); CNN Interference systems; Programmable platforms; Security access; Automatic acceleration platforms; Reconfigurable hardware; Clouds FPGAs; FPGA devices; Energy-oriented FPGA implementation; Segmentaiton on FPGAs; Memory and graph processing; DRAM

Semiconductors and applications

Special semiconductors; Tunable bandgap semiconductors; Piezoelectricity; Polarization; Breakdown voltage; Superconductivity; Ferromagnetism; Biocompatibility; Chemical and thermal stability; Power amplification at very high frequencies; High temperature electronics; LEDs and lasers; Photodetectors; Transistors; Piezoelectric filters

Design, models and languages

Languages and models for specification and design of hardware; Robust, reliable and/or safe embedded electronics; Circuits/hardware description languages; Standards related to design languages; Processor and memory design; Embedded system design; VHDL-related standards; Electronic circuits modelling; Automatic generation of models; Quantitative analysis of models; Distributed CAD systems; Collaborative design based on Internet and WWW; Electronic systems design based on WWW; System- and high-level synthesis, HW/SW codesign

Signal processing circuits

Signal processing; High-speed signal processing; Multi-scale signal processing and imaging; Asynchronous circuits and systems; High frequency processing; Power and signal amplifiers; Parallel processing circuits; Equalization processing; Compression, transcoding, and applied signal processing

Arithmetic computational circuits

Operational arithmetic circuits; Basic arithmetic operations; Modular operations; Decimal-floating point operations; Multiple-precision operations; Squaring and exponentiation; Polynomial evaluations; Periodic functions; Operational approximations; Parallel decimal operations

Microelectronics

Components and circuits for communications; HMIC and MMIC design; Micro-electronics; Nano-electronics; Lasers and mini-lasers; Miniature devices; Low power electronics; Nano-scale electronics materials

Electronics technologies

Organic optoelectronic; Implantable electronics; Wearable electronics; Low power electronics; Electronic microarray technology and applications; RF and Microwave

Special circuits

Programmable circuits; Design of reconfigurable micro-chips; VLSI circuits design; Low-noise circuits; Digital modulators; Micro-sensors; Micro-antennas; Thermal circuits; Reconfigurable circuits; Dynamically reconfigurable processors; Oscillators; VCOs and phased-array transmitters

Consumer electronics

Home-oriented electronics; Biometric circuits; Home gateway; Home theater circuitry; Game systems; Interactive and directed programming electronics; Advanced DVD and CD; Interactive and directed programming electronics

Application-oriented electronics

Medical Applications including telemedicine and eHealth electronics; Biochip design for health science applications; Bio-systems and miniature instruments; Biosensors and biosensor networks; Power and energy distribution electronics; Electronics for building automation; Energy saving and conversion circuits; Industrial measurement and control electronics; Electronics for Avionics, Automotive, Railways and Industrial Applications; Navigation electronics