Preface

Abstract

This book and CD contain the papers presented at the 13th Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC2012), which was held in Tallinn, Estonia in 3–6. October 2012. This time the opening plenary session was held at the Tallinn University of Technology and the conference sessions and the final plenary session at the conference center Laulasmaa SPA and Resort hotel. The Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics together with the Department of Computer Engineering of Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) organized the BEC2012. Support was given by the TUT Technomedicum and from the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Drives and Power Electronics, and the IT Faculty Doctoral School. The IEEE Circuits and Systems branch gave the technical sponsorship to the conference. The Competence Centre in Electronics, Info- and Communication Technologies ELIKO and the Centre of Excellence in Integrated Electronics Systems and Biomedical Engineering CEBE supported our event from the side of industry and the basic research as well. In response to the call for papers the International Program Committee received about 110 papers from 18 countries, mostly from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany, but even from USA, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Portugal, China, South Africa, Egypt, Russia, Ukraine and India. The Conference program features 5 invited papers and 80 papers for oral presentation. The whole conference is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of grounding the Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics and the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at TUT. The opening plenary session involves three speeches about biology enhanced nm, mm and THz applications. The closing plenary session Daniel Foty discusses about the evergreen and never-ending topic of Moore's law existence and validity. Also fully different topic about the smart houses concept concerning the energy economy and environmental protection politics issues is. Finally, the best paper award on BEC2012 will be announced.