Asynchronous Circuits as an Enabler of Scalable And Programmable Metasurfaces

Abstract

Metamaterials and metasurfaces have given possibilities for manipulating electromagnetic (EM) waves that in the past would have seemed impossible. The majority of metasurface designs are suitable for a particular frequency and angle of incidence. One long-sought objective is the design of programmable metasurfaces to dynamically manipulate a variety of incoming EM frequencies and angles. In order to do this, a large-scale mesh of networked chips are required below the metasurface, which apart from adapting electrical impedance properties, also communicate with each other, thus relaying information about meta-atom settings, as well as forwarding possible distributed measurements taken. This paper describes why an asynchronous mixed-signal ASIC is advantageous for the control of scalable, EM absorbing, metasurfaces.

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