Guest Editorial - Selected Papers From the 2011 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

T HE IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and the foremost global forum for presenting advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. Last year, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS highlighted select papers from the ISSCC 2010 on topics related to biological and healthcare applications, which was well received. This special issue once again features six select papers from the ISSCC 2011. This is a small set of examples that reflect the rapidly increasing efforts to use solid-state circuits for health-monitoring, and therapeutic/diagnostic applications. The selection of these papers, whose final decision was based on peer review, was coordinated with the editor-in-chief of the IEEE JOURNAL