Always energy-optimal microscopic wireless systems

Wireless sensor-and-control systems era starting to make inroads in medical health care. Monitoring of vital signs, advanced imaging, and innovative treatments and prosthetics are emerging. The challenge with all these systems is that they have to be ??energy-frugal??, that is that they have to get by with the energy they scavenge from the environment around them. At the same time, they need to be adaptive to the time-varying needs of the systems they observe or control. In this talk we will discuss how we could simultaneously explore the lower bounds of energy dissipation while at the same time providing ??hugely-scalable?? performance.