Speaker

Piero Malcovati, University of Pavia, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering

Abstract

Audio interfaces are among the most popular man/machine interfaces. Such interfaces are based on microphones, whose efficiency expressed in terms of performance/power consumption is becoming one of the crucial parameters for the success on the market. In this presentation the main specifications and building blocks of typical MEMS microphone interfaces are illustrated and analyzed in detail, highlighting the most important design issues and trade-offs. Moreover, examples are reported, including circuit details and experimental results.

Bio

Piero Malcovati received the "Laurea" degree (Summa cum Laude) in Electronic Engineering from University of Pavia, Italy in 1991. In 1992 he joined the Physical Electronics Laboratory (PEL) at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland, as a Ph. D. candidate. He received the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 1996. From 1996 to 2001 he has been Assistant Professor and from 2002 to 2017 Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering (now Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering) of the University of Pavia. From 2017 Piero Malcovati is Full Professor in the same institution. His research activities are focused on microsensor interface circuits and high-performance data converters. He authored and co-authored more than 100 papers in International Journals, more than 300 presentations at International Conferences (with published proceedings), several book chapters and patents. He was and still is member of the Technical Program Committees for several International Conferences, including ISSCC, ESSCIRC, SENSORS, ICECS, DATE, and PRIME. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Regional Editor for Europe of the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, and Deputy Editor in Chief for the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. He is an IEEE senior member.