The growth of the Internet of Things and wearable technologies, combined with edge processing, is placing ever-greater demands on low-power electronics. Smart dust and unobtrusive wearables require tiny batteries or even self-powering, harvesting energy from their surroundings. CSEM and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor have joined forces to develop a near-threshold 0.5V ecosystem. Since energy scales with the square of the supply voltage, huge reductions in energy consumption can be achieved for simi...