Guest editorial: Introduction to the special issue on selected papers from the ICM’2021 conference

Welcome to the Special Issue on Selected Papers from the ICM2021 Conference! ICM conferences are traditionally organized annually in different countries. As such, ICM 2021 is the 33rd international conference, with participants from various countries, presenting papers from the rich spectrum of electrical and electronics engineering. ICM 2021 is organized by German University in Cairo, Egypt. The IEEE Egypt Section, IEEE CASS region 8 technical chapter and IEEE CASS Egypt Technical Chapter are technical co-sponsors of ICM 2021. The conference ICM’2021 was held virtually due to COVID-19 concerns. The scope of the conference covers topics ranging over Device and Circuit modelling, Analog circuit design, Digital signal processing, Low power circuits and systems, Power management, Nonlinear circuits, VLSI systems and applications, Reconfigurable systems, Hardware Software Co-design, CAD tools, NoC, SoC, SiP, and Packaging, MEMS and NEMS, Optical Circuits and systems, Design for testability, Emerging technology, RFID, RFIC and antenna, Virtual reality, IoT Circuits and security, Testing, reliability, and verification, Neuromorphic Computing, Biomedical circuits and systems, Memristor circuits and systems, AI and Neural Networks circuits.

The conference papers are the result of extensive analytical, experimental, and computational works. Selected papers from international ICM Conferences were invited to be published in extended form in special ICM issues of international journals, under peer review. This Special Issue on Selected Papers from ICM’2021 contains extended versions of eight selected papers presented at the conference.

The paper by Mayank Srivastava et al. Universal memelement emulator using only off-the-shelf components proposes a Universal memelement emulator (UME) using only current- biased Active elements (which are purely off-the-shelf). In the paper by Vassilis Alimisis et al. A low power analog integrated image edge detector is proposed consist- ing of Gaussian function and threshold circuits In the paper by Sajad Loan et al. entitled Germanium pocket based tunnel FET with underlap: design and simulation proposed a germanium pocket TFET using a dual dielectric (HfO2 near the source side and SiO2 near the drain side) and a gate which uses two separate materials at source/drain side for enhancement of TFET characteristics. In the paper by Sameh Abdellatif et al. entitled Transparency against efficiency in uni/bifacial mesostructured-based solar cells for self-powered sensing applications, primary light-harvesting source for four IoT sensing applications is introduced. In the paper by Kinana Rashwani et al. entitled Modeling and simulation of high flow medical CO2 insufflator using PID-P, PID-PQT, and MPC-PQT controllers, Three models of high flow medical gas have presented with different control systems. The paper by Sajad Loan et al. entitled CNTFET based 4-bit thermometer current steering digital to analog converter: design and analysis.

In the paper by Falah Awwad et al. entitled DNA bases detection via MoS2 field effect transistor with a nanopore: first-principles modeling, the authors proposed monolayer MoS2 sheet connected to a pair of gold electrodes, with a nanopore at the center of the MoS2 sheet, is designed for the purpose of selective, quick, and sensitive DNA base identification.

In the paper Sajad Loan et al. entitled CNTFET based comparators: design, simulation and comparative analysis, the design of a carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNTFET) based open-loop and dynamic comparators and compared the performance with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) based open loop and dynamic comparators is presented. The guest editors would like to thank Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Mohammed Ismail, for valuable supports and staf at Journals Editorial Ofce for their assistance in producing this volume. We hope you very much enjoy reading this special ICM’2021 issue of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Selected Papers from ICM’2021.

Biographies

Ahmed Madian

(SM’12) is currently Professor at the Department of Electronics and computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and applied science, NILE University, Giza, Egypt. He is former director of Master Program sept. 2015 – Sept. 2020 Also, He is the director of Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research center (NISC) since 2016. Also, He is director of Electronics and computer engineering program since 2020-present. Also, he is Professor on leave from Radiation Engineering Department, National center for radiation research and Technology (NCRRT), Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority. He has published more than 175 papers in international conferences and journals. His H-index is currently 26. Also, he served in the many technical and organizing committee of many international conferences. He received many research grants as Principal Investigator (PI), CO-PI, or Consultant from different national/international organizations. He won the best researcher award (Dr. Hazem Ezzat award 2017) for his outstanding research profile and Elshorok academy award for Innovation and technology development from ASRT. He is member of the national radio of science committee (NRSC) from 2018-now and member of the Council of Communications and Information Technology, Egyptian Academy for science, research and technology since 2022. Dr. Madian is actively serving as a reviewer in several journal and conference publications including IEEE conferences and journals. He served as guest associate editor for many international journals. He is the founder of IEEE Circuits and systems (CASS) Egypt technical chapter and co-founder of the IEEE Robotics and automations (RAS) Egypt technical chapter. He is currently the IEEE Egypt Section Secretary and member of Ex-COM.

Mohamed A. Abd El Ghany

received the B.S. degree in electron-ics and communications engineering (with honors) and the Masters degrees in electronics engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2000 and 2006, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in the area of high-performance VLSI/IC design from the German University, Cairo, (GUC) Egypt in 2010. From 2003 to 2006, he was in National Space Agency of Ukraine, EGYPTSAT-1 project. From 2008 to 2009, he was an International Scholar at the Ohio State University, Electrical Engineering Dept., Columbus, USA. From 2012 to 2014, He awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, TU, Darmstadt, Germany. He is currently working as a Professor in GUC, Egypt. He is a project manager for eleven international projects between TU Darmstadt, TU Dresden, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Stuttgart University and GUC. His research interest is in Network on Chip design and high-performance VLSI circuits, Dark Silicon Era, low-power design, embedded system design, hardware-software co-design, IoT security system, Artificial Intelligence in Electronic Circuits and Systems, 3D Computing Era, Electronic systems for biomedical applications, Smart Cities, Autonomous Vehicles and intelligent transportation systems using machine learning. He is the author of about 100 papers, two book chapters, two books in the fields of high throughput and low-power VLSI/IC design and network on chip (NoC)/system on chip (SoC). He is a reviewer and program committee member of many IEEE international journals and conferences.

Abdallah Kassem

has previously worked as research assistant at Polystim Neurotechnologies Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. He still cooperates with this laboratory doing some researches. He received his B.S in Microelectronics from University of Quebec in Montreal in 1992, his M.Sc and Ph.D in microelectronic from Ecole polytechnique de Montreal in 1996 and 2004 respectively. From 1996 to 2000, he taught computer architecture, microprocessors and digital electronic courses and laboratories at AUB, LAU in Lebanon. Prof. Kassem joined Notre Dame University-Louaize in 2005 as an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2020. Prof. Kassem published more than 88 papers in reviewed journals, book Chapters and international conference proceedings. He is an Associate Editor in IEEE Access and a Guest Editor Elsevier, AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications. His research interests include microelectronics design and testing, VLSI, semiconductor device modeling and simulation, microprocessors, engineering education/management, ultrasonic applications, hardware/software embedded system, healthcare applications, e-Health and m-Health. Prof. Kassem is a Professional Engineer in Lebanon (Ordre des Ingénieurs du Liban). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Organizer and TPC member of many IEEE International conferences. He was elected in 2020 as a chair of the IEEE Lebanon Joint Chapter IE13/PE31/CAS04/PEL35 (Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics & Energy, Circuits and Systems, Power Electronics).