Near-sensor and in-sensor computing

F Zhou, Y Chai - Nature Electronics, 2020 - nature.com
The number of nodes typically used in sensory networks is growing rapidly, leading to large
amounts of redundant data being exchanged between sensory terminals and computing …

The road for 2D semiconductors in the silicon age

S Wang, X Liu, P Zhou - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Continued reduction in transistor size can improve the performance of silicon integrated
circuits (ICs). However, as Moore's law approaches physical limits, high‐performance …

Ultralow power in-sensor neuronal computing with oscillatory retinal neurons for frequency-multiplexed, parallel machine vision

R Ahsan, HU Chae, SAA Jalal, Z Wu, J Tao, S Das… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In-sensor and near-sensor computing architectures enable multiply accumulate operations
to be carried out directly at the point of sensing. In-sensor architectures offer dramatic power …

Leca: In-sensor learned compressive acquisition for efficient machine vision on the edge

T Ma, AJ Boloor, X Yang, W Cao, P Williams… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the rapid advances of deep learning-based computer vision (CV) technology, digital
images are increasingly consumed, not by humans, but by downstream CV algorithms …

Resistive memory-based zero-shot liquid state machine for multimodal event data learning

N Lin, S Wang, Y Li, B Wang, S Shi, Y He… - Nature Computational …, 2025 - nature.com
The human brain is a complex spiking neural network (SNN) capable of learning multimodal
signals in a zero-shot manner by generalizing existing knowledge. Remarkably, it maintains …

A 100 80 Flash LiDAR Sensor With In-Pixel Zoom-Histogramming TDC and Self-Referenced Single-Slope ADC Based on Analog Counters

SH Han, S Park, B Kim, JH Chun… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a CMOS flash light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor featuring an
in-pixel histogramming time-to-digital converter (hTDC) with a minimal footprint of 1110 m …

Energy-aware adaptive multi-exit neural network inference implementation for a millimeter-scale sensing system

Y Li, Y Wu, X Zhang, J Hu, I Lee - IEEE Transactions on Very …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Implementing a neural network (NN) inference in a millimeter-scale system is challenging
due to limited energy and storage size. This article proposes an energy-aware adaptive NN …

A 64× 64 SPAD-based indirect time-of-flight image sensor with 2-tap analog pulse counters

B Park, I Park, C Park, W Choi, Y Na… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 64 64 indirect time-of-flight (iToF) image sensor with a depth range of
50 m, integrated into a 1P4M 110-nm CMOS process. The sensor is based on a single …

Developing a miniature energy-harvesting-powered edge device with multi-exit neural network

Y Li, Y Wu, X Zhang, E Hamed, J Hu… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a miniature edge device that performs neural network inference with
different exit options depending on available energy. In addition to the main-exit path, it …

A 9-bit 8.3 MS/s column SAR ADC with hybrid RC DAC for CMOS image sensors

M Liu, S Zhu, Y Xu - Microelectronics Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a synchronous 9-bit column successive approximation register (SAR)
ADC for CMOS imaging sensors. The SAR ADC uses a pseudo-differential RC DAC and a …