The Future Of Low Power Circuits And Embedded Intelligence: Emerging Devices And New Design Paradigms

Technology variability and global environment variations are bringing many constraints on circuits and architectures today making difficult to reach high energy efficiency. After a brief overview of adaptive circuits for low power multi-processors and IoT architectures, the talk will detail new technologies opportunities for more flexibility/adaptivity. Digital and mixed-signal architectures using 3D technologies will be presented in the scope of multi-processors activity as well as imagers and neuro-inspired circuits. Also, the integration of non-volatile memories will be shown in the perspective of new architectures for computing. Finally, embedding learning will be addressed to solve power challenges at the edge and in end-devices: some new design approaches will be discussed.