Session 9 overview: Digital circuits & sensors

No one is safe from the laws of physics. State-of-the-art process scaling is creating panic in the industry, with ever-increasing degrees of variability and aging effects becoming more and more of a concern. No company can risk shipping products that fail in the field, and filtering out such devices during manufacturing costs money. Investors, relax; help is at hand. In line with the conference theme of “Sensing the Future”, this session focuses on a suite of sensors and circuit techniques to extract the highest performance from deep sub-micron technologies. Armed with these circuits, designers have implemented new and innovative methods of keeping devices alive in the field, and operating at their maximum performance.