Session 21 overview: Smart SoCs for innovative applications

While System on Chips (SoC) are common in the consumer electronics market, smart SoCs now emerge to enable more demanding applications, from biomedical sensors to security. In this Technology Directions session we showcase the high sensitivity, large dynamic range, energy efficiency and security issues that must be addressed to make possible the widespread uptake of these technologies. The session consists of 8 papers, including the demonstration of SoCs for bacterial sensing, 3D lung ventilation or intra-ocular pressure monitoring, piezoelectric drivers for diverse applications, mixed signal processing for acoustic sensing, and a secure actively detuned wireless power receiver.