UBIGIoT Seminar : Orazio AIELLO

You are welcome in the frame of UBIGIoT Horizon MSCA Staff Exchanges project with STMicroelectronics, Tyndall National Institute, University of Catania, University of Genova, UBFC, LeQuyDon Technical University, Vietnam National University to attend the seminar of Orazio Aiello from the Universitry of Genoa, coordinator, on Tuesday April 25th at 2 p.m in Jules Haag. - SUPMICROTECH - ENSMM.

BIGIoT program is a staff exchanges program and we are looking for people interested to travel in STMicroelectronics to work on energy efficient electronics.

Title of seminar : Ultra-Low-power and Voltage scalable IC design: towards distributed and battery-less sensor nodes

Abstract : Energy-autonomous and inexpensive electronic systems must have a tiny footprint, need little design work, and be portable in terms of design and process technology nodes. Exploiting the digital (automated) design flow even for analog building blocks can drastically cut the design effort of any system-on-chip and allows an aggressive supply voltage scaling. This imposes a paradigm shift in the IC design, moving from the voltage domain to the time domain and enabling direct powering from energy harvesters. In this framework, the seminar illustrates the concepts and the design flows which enable the implementation of integrated building blocks for sensor nodes in a sub-nW range. Practical cases of capacitive and temperature IC sensors powered by 1mm2 solar cells will be shown.

Biography:  Orazio Aiello (Senior Member, IEEE) received the BSc and MSc degrees (cum laude) from the University of Catania, Italy, in 2005 and 2008, respectively, and the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) from the Scuola Superiore di Catania, Italy, in 2009. He got his Ph.D. degree from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2013 where he also was a Research Fellow in a joint project with FIAT-Chrysler Automobiles, Turin. He was a Visiting Ph.D. at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 2013 and a Visiting Fellow with the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2015 and 2016.
He was a Mixed Signal IC Designer and an EMC Consultant for STMicroelectronics, Castelletto, Italy (2008 to 2009) and for NXP-Semiconductors, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2014). Since 2015, he has been working with the Green IC Group at the National University of Singapore, where he has also been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual and a Global Fellow. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Genova, Italy.
His main research interests include energy-efficient analog-mixed signal circuits and sensor interfaces. Dr Aiello is an Associate Editor of IET Electronics Letters, and a member of the IEEE CASS Microlearning AdHoc Committee. He serves as a regular reviewer for several IEEE journals, and he is/was a Technical Program Committee Member of a number of conferences, such as NORCAS and APCCAS.