TDK-InvenSense Italy s.r.l.Sensor Systems Business CompanyMEMS Sensors Business GroupDigital IC design director, managing an engineering team for digital IC system/RTL design, implementation, verification and FPGA prototyping of inertial and audio MEMS products.Still hands-on in technical aspects and design methodologies.Main expertise in MEMS and audio, with special focus on hardware DSP design.

Sensing Solutions Business Unit - Mobility Group - Italy Milan DC - Rozzano (MI)Digital design manager for consumer MEMS products.Leading a team of brilliant digitaldesigners with special focus on low power design, area optimization and improved DSPtechniques.Digital design methodology development allowing system level verification in a very fastdiscrete time simulation environment. Development of discrete time behavioral models foranalog and mechanical blocks using Verilog-wreal language.Development of complete design flow from RTL coding to digital layout using state-of-the-artdigital signoff tools.Several patents on MEMS systems architectures

Marvell Technology Group - Italy R&D Design Center - Pavia - ItalyAudio codecs development responsibility for mobile applications.Project leading activity in product definition and system/digital design. Interaction with analog design team and production teams (testing, reliability) for development of mixed-signal products for audio mobile market.Support to application team, field application teams and customer.Deep RTL coding experience in Verilog language. Digital design flow realization from RTL to GDS. Verication environment development for mixed-signal circuits, with behavioral modelization of analog macros (PLL, ADCs, DACs).Digital filters (FIR, IIR, sigma-delta modulators) design optimization in terms of area utilization, latency reduction, power consumption. Low power techniques knowledge.

Home Entertainment & Displays Group - Audio Division R&D - Cornaredo (MI) - ItalyDesign activity of integrated circuits for digital class-D audio amplifiers, from system study to VHDL language hardware implementation and FPGA prototyping.Creation and industrialization of FFX technology for efficient PCM-to-PWM conversion, commercialized by STMicroelectronics.Publications, patents, seminars realization about digital class-D amplifiers.Coordination of different teams (Italy, France, India, China) for realization and validation of projects up to final product.Research activity on innovative solutions for class-D amplification and for audio processing, through thesis/stage activity inside the company.Collaboration with university and research centers about audio.

Telecommunications, Peripherals, Automotive R&D - Advanced Products - Cornaredo (MI) - ItalyExperience on VHDL design activity, simulation, synthesis, place & route, testing.Deep knowledge of software tools for digital design (complete flow from RTL to GDS format; usage of Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor tools).Software code writing: firmware development in C and Assembler language for dedicated DSP based applications; development of new software tools (sh, tcsh scripting) to help in the activity of digital design.Mathematical modelization of hard-disk motor drive systems in Matlab language.Realization of a spindle motor VHDL behavioral model for discrete time simulations.Realization of an automatic VHDL code generator for register maps and serial-to-parallel interfaces.