Quality-Energy Trade-off and Bio-Inspired Electronic Systems

Applications are demanding new approaches to electronic systems. The concept of running for obtaining the best performances in terms of speed and dimensions, that drove the electronic design in the last decades, is no more valid. In fact, the electronic systems are nowadays applied in very much different scenarios where sometimes, for example, it is not at all important the speed, but power consumption and reliability are the keys.It is strategic to find new approaches that must have an impact at system level, not on the single parts only, but on the global structure: the optimization is done as consequence of the choices related to how the single devices are working, associated to how they interact each other and they transmit the information. The two levels (system and device) are strictly related, and design choices have to be done looking at the system as a global entity to be optimized.