Digital electronics in fibres enable fabric-based machine-learning inference.

ABSTRACT: Digital devices are the essential building blocks of any modern electronic system. Fibres containing digital devices could enable fabrics with digital system capabilities for applications in physiological monitoring, human-computer interfaces, and on-body machine-learning. Here, a scalable preform-to-fibre approach is used to produce tens of metres of flexible fibre containing hundreds of interspersed, digital temperature sensors and memory devices with a memory density of ~7.6 × 10⁵ bits per metre. The entire ensemble of devices are individually addressable and independently operated through a single connection at the fibre edge, overcoming the perennial single-fibre single-device limitation and increasing system reliability. The digital fibre, when incorporated within a shirt,

SUBMITTER: Loke G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8175338 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature