Sensoteric aims to develop reconfigurable analog-front end circuity as well as novel sensor approaches enabled by an emerging reconfigurable transistor technology on a single chip platform. The consortium contributes to provide industrial solutions for key challenges of smart sensor implementation ranging from stability, reliability, robustness, and cost to CMOS compatibility and energy efficiency. In addition, questions like auto-calibration, verification, design-technology-co-optimization, and environmental awareness are about to be addressed.
We will investigate the analog-front end for sensing technologies. Thereby the main challenges addressed will be:
- investigate towards flexible front-ends that adapt to many specific applications, environmental-aware conditions, and measurement quantities, as well as bringing down energy-consumption
- enhancing functionality of analog sensor elements by introducing device-level reconfigurability in form of emerging reconfigurable transistors, and determining the optimization by introducing into existing front-end circuits.
- Utilizing negative differential resistance as a key-enabling technological feature to enable tunable oscillators as well as novel sensor transducer effects for bioFETs, gas-sensors and photodetectors.
