International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA) Newsletter

   (ISSN 1726-6017)

This monthly e-newsletter, written by the editors of Sensors & Transducers Magazine and Journal (ISSN 1726-5479), delivers the product and research news, end-use application news, information on upcoming events for MEMS and sensors professionals, and updates you on happenings in the sensor science, industry and markets. The Newsletter reports the latest developments in sensor industry as it happens from leading research centers, universities and manufacturers. Who should read this Newsletter ? All who are interested in the newest information and trends in sensors, transducers, MEMS and sensor instrumentation, including DAQ.

IFSA Newsletter (ISSN 1726-6017), June 2019

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1.   New issue of Sensors & Transducers journal

2.   1^st IFSA Frequency & Time Conference (IFTC' 2019): Call for Papers

3.   New Open Access Sensors and Measurements Related Books Published by IFSA

4.   New catalogs: IFSA Publishing Books & Frequency-to-Digital' s Products

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6.   Additional Information, Comments, Suggestions

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About the Event. Today, there are only a few conferences, which are devoted to several aspects of frequency/time measurements and appropriate sensors. The scientific and technical problems related to frequency output sensors and transducers were presented only on some events devoted to sensors and measurements.

In 1961 professor P. V. Novitskiy wrote: "... In the future we can expect, that a class of frequency output sensors will get such development, that the number of now known frequency output sensors will exceed the number of now known amplitude sensors...". It was also predicted in a technology forecast in 1971: “Many basic measurements will be related to or measured by time/frequency techniques. This situation will occur because of the increasing facility and accuracy provided through time frequency measurements… Frequency and computing counters can be expected to become smaller, lighter and cheaper, provide direct frequency readout and will be more universally used… Progress will continue in the field of time and frequency during the next five years and will contribute materially to the state of the art in electronics”.

Despite the fact that this forecast was not fully justified till now, it is really the situation when “the future glimmers long before it comes to be”. Today, the next big challenge has come from microelectronics. So, in 2010 professor Staphan Henzler did write: “Below the 100 nm technology node the design of analog and mixed-signal circuits becomes perceptibly more difficult. This is particularly true for low supply voltage near 1 V or below. The result is not only an increased design effort but also a growing power consumption. … However, digital circuits become faster, smaller, and less power hungry”.

Frequency/time domain signal processing and so time-to-digital converters (TDC) and frequency-to-digital (FDC) converters are well suitable for high volume microelectronics in order to circumvent analog impairments in nanometer-scale CMOS technologies. Hence, the TDC and FDC concepts are promising that have the ability to exploit fully the advantage of digital circuits. The FDC will be a trend-setting technology for ultimately scaled CMOS technologies in the nearest future, and can be used for many applications such as smart digital sensors, IoT and Industry 4.0. No any doubt that now we are living in time, when the old prediction becomes true !

On the basis of the mentioned above and Industry 4.0 and IoT 2.0 challenges it has been decided to start a new annual international conference, which will cover both: methods of measurements of frequency-time parameters of signals, and devices including appropriate sensors, transducers and converters to frequency, and frequency to digital. Sure, the conference can not ignore the other related areas connected with frequency and time, namely: generation, transfer, various oscillators and resonators, standards and references, etc. The conference is organized by International Frequency Sensor Association (IFSA) - one of the major professional, non-profit association serving for sensor industry and academy during 20 years.

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Special Sessions:

Authors are welcome to propose and manage special sessions during the IFSA' 2019. Each special session will contain 4-6 papers in a related field as specified above.

Session organizers will get:

- Certificate of Appreciation

- Free Registration

- Special Publishing Theme within Conference Proceedings

- Free article and book chapter post conference publications in open access Sensors & Transducers journal and ‘Advances in Sensors: Reviews’, Vol. 8 or 'Advances in Measurements and Instrumentation: Reviews', Vol. 2
  open access Book Series.

Publications (one event three publications !):

1) All registered abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings (Flash drive edition of published Proceedings with the ISBN).

2) Authors will be invited to submit full-page extended papers to special issue of Sensors & Transducers open access journal (ISSN 2306-8515, e-ISSN 1726-5479), which is published in both formats: print and electronic (pdf).

3) The limited number of full-page papers published in the journal will be selected by the Editorial Board to extend for open access book chapters for the Book Series on 'Advances in Sensors: Reviews', Vol. 8 or 'Advances in 

    Measurements and Instrumentation: Reviews', Vol. 2.


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