A very motivated person with a natural talent for problem solving. Expert in integrated circuit design, used to project leading and to mentor less experienced engineers.Used to go the extra mile. His main areas of interest are the precision design techniques both for operation amplifiers and ADCs, low power applications and sensors.Andrea Fornasari is author or co-author of more than 20 papers for international conferences and journals (including ISSCC, JSSC, VLSI and ESSCIRC), he holds a patent and he was invited in several occasions (IEEE STAR-CAS, GE, ToM) to give lectures on sensor interfaces or on dynamic offset compensation techniques.Experience and Competences:Competitive analysis and feasibility study Architecture definition, supported by mathematical ability to deal with systems in the s and z domain (assisted by a very good knowledge of Matlab and Mathematica)Design and Verification of building blocksSupervision of Design/Layout Engineers on block designTop level mixed-signal verificationDFT strategy: definition and implementationSilicon bench level validationSupport to backend (Test and Application Engineers, Reliability)Support and mentor junior colleaguesExperience on the design of:o Precision Amplifiers (Vos<1mV)o High Precision Amplifiers (dynamically compensated, Vos<10uV)o Switched cap circuitso ADC & DAC converterso Voltage Referenceso Sensor Interfaces (including sensor linearization)o LDOso Low power circuitsSpecialties: sensors interfaces, analog IC design, mixed-signal design, data converter design, chopper amplifiers and dynamic offset compensation techniques, DC-DC converters design, IC layout, IC test and debug