Ingegnere elettronico fw-hw

• Seminario dal titolo “Densely Instrumented Physical Infrastructures for Energy-Efficient Building” presso Advanced school on ICT for Future Energy Systems, 2012, Università di Trento, Trento.
• Seminario dal titolo “Monitoring and control: Technology and methodology approach” presso Innovation School, 2012, TIS Techno Innovation, Bolzano.
• Assistente nel programma di laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica della Facoltà di Bologna:
–	Corso Elettronica Digitale, II anno, fondamentale, AA 2009/10.
o	Supervisore progetto finale
• Assistente nel programma di laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica della Facoltà di Bologna:
–	Corso Hardware-Software Co-design, IV anno, AA 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/2012, 2012/2013.
o	Supervisore progetto finale
• Membro commissione di laurea, Università di Ferrara AA2008/09. 

	Collaborazioni con Istituti accademici italiani: 
o	Università di Ferrara, low swing IC buses;
o	Università di Bologna, DEIAgra, Controllo wireless infestazioni in agricoltura; 
o	Universitò di Bologna, DICAM, building monitoring WSN;
o	Istituto Nazionale Riposo Cura Anziani, scarpe meccatroniche wireless;
o	EURAC, building monitoring WSN;
	Collaborazioni con Istituti accademici stranieri:
o	IMEC, Belgio, Modello termico; Data path reliability in DSM technology;
o	IMEC, Olanda, Scarpe meccatroniche wireless;
o	EPFL, Modello termico; Scarpe meccatroniche wireless;
o	Centre Hospitalier universitarie Vaudois, Scarpe meccatroniche wireless;
o	Geriatric Center Kosice, Scarpe meccatroniche wireless;
o	Technical University of Kosice, Scarpe meccatroniche wireless;
o	University of Strathclyde, Scarpe meccatroniche wireless;
o	KA, building monitoring WSN;
o	IDK, building monitoring WSN;
o	UIBK, building monitoring WSN;
o	TUDA, building monitoring WSN;
o	TUD, building monitoring WSN;
o	PHI, building monitoring WSN;
	Revisore per riviste internazionali:
–	IEEE Transactions on CAD.

Winner of grant for the DATE PhD forum (2007, 2008, 2009).

• Participation on poster section of workshop “impact of Process Variability on Design and Test” DATE (2009) .

• Participation on poster section of workshop “impact of Process Variability on Design and Test” DATE (2008) .

• Winner of Marie Curie Ph.D. fellow grant (2006, 2007).

•	Invited speech: “Finmeccanica Workshop on: Energy generation and storage for highly portability”; Roma (Italy) - March 30th, 2010. "Energy Harvesting/Scavenging for wireless and un-attended sensor networks".

Articoli da rivista:

1.	D. Balsamo, D. Brunelli, G. Paci, L. Benini “Sleep power minimisation using adaptive duty-cycling of DC-DC converters in state-retentive systems” IET Circuits, Devices & Systems 2014
2.	V. Jelicic, M. Magno, D. Brunelli, G. Paci, L. Benini “Context-Adaptive Multimodal Wireless Sensor Network for Energy-Efficient Gas Monitoring” IEEE Sensors Journal, Volume 13, pp. 328-338, 2013
3.	D. Brunelli, D. Balsamo, G. Paci, L. Benini “Temperature compensated time synchronisation in wireless sensor netwroks”, Electronics Letters, Volume 48, pp 1026-1028, 2012
4.	G. Paci, D. Bertozzi, L. Benini “Variability compensation for full-swing against low-swing on-chip communication” IET Computers & Digital Techniques, Volume 5, Issue 5, September 2011
5.	G. Paci, F. Poletti, P. Marchal, L. Benini “Exploring temperature-aware design in low-power MPSoCs” IJES International journal of embeddd systems, Volume 3, Issue 1/2 October 2007
6.	D. Atienza , P. Del Valle, G. Paci, F. Poletti, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, J.M. Mendias, R. Harmida “HW-SW emulation of Low Power Adders for a SIMD Data Path” ACM Transations od Design Automation of Electronic System (TODAES), Volume 12, Issue 3 Article No. 26, August 2007

Conferenze:

1.	D. Porcarelli, D. Balsamo, D. Brunelli, G. Paci “Perpetual and low-cost power meter for monitoring residential and industrial appliances”, Desing, Automation Test in Europe Conference, DATE 2013, Grenoble, France, 2013, pp 1155-1160
2.	F.A. Aderohunmu, G. Paci, D. Brunelli, J. D. Deng, L. Benini, M. Purvis “An Application-Specific Forecasting Algorithm for Extending WSN Lifetime” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 2013, pp.374-381 
3.	A. Bishara, R. Plagge, J. Hernandez, S. Reeb, G. Paci, H. Garrecht, D. Garcia, E. Gabrielli, C. Colla, B. Krick “Development of new systems and technologies for sustainable refurbishment of Europe’s built heritage” 3rd European Workshop on Cultural Heritage Preservation, EWCHP 2013, Bolzano, Italy, September 2103, pp. 143-152
4.	D. Balsamo, G. Paci, L. Benini, D. Brunelli “Long term, low cost, passive environmental monitoring of heritage buildings for energy efficiency retrofitting” IEEE Workshop on Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems, Trento, Italy, September 2013, pp 1-6
5.	F. A. Aderohunmu, G. Paci, D. Brunelli, J. D. Deng, L. Benini “Prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor networks using light-weight forecasting algorithms” IEEE Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Melbourne, Australia, April 2013, pp. 461-466
6.	F. A. Aderohunmu, G. Paci, L. Benini, J. D. Deng, D. Brunelli “SWIFTNET: A data acquisition protocol for fast-reactive monitoring application” IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems, SEIS 2013, Porto Portugal, June 2013, pp. 19-21
7.	F. A. Aderohunmu, G. Paci, D. Brunelli, J. Deng, L. Benini, M. Purvis “Trade-offs of Forecasting Algorithm for Extending WSN Lifetime in a Real-World Deployment” International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, May 2013, pp 21-23
8.	D. Balsamo, G. Paci, D. Brunelli “Smart AC Power metering through WSNs and the Cloud” poster session, Fifth European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2012, Trento, Italy, 2012.
9.	G. Paci, E. Gabrielli, C. Colla “On-site dynamic wireless sensor monitoring in the historic building of Palazzina della Viola, Bologna, Italy” European Workshop on Cultural Heritage Preservation 2012, EWCHP 2012, Kjeller, Norway, September 2012, pp. 74-81
10.	V. Jelicic, M. Magno, G. Paci, D. Brunelli, L. Benini “Design, characterization and management of a wireless sensor network for smart gas monitoring” Advances in Sensors and Interfaces, IWASI 2011,Savelletri di Fasano, Italy 28-29 June 2011; pp. 115-120
11.	C. Tacconi, G. Paci, L. Rocchi, E. Farella, L. Benini, L. Chiari “User Control Unit for the Smiling System: Design and Functionalities” 1st International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, ICABB 2010, Venezia 10-14 October 2010; pp. 21-26
12.	G. Paci, D. Bertozzi, L. Benini “Variability Compensation in Full-Swing vs Low-Swing Communication Channels for Network-on-Chip Design” INA-OCMC, Paphos, Cyprus, Jan 25, 2009
13.	G. Paci, D. Bertozzi, L. Benini “Effectiveness of adaptive supply voltage and body bias as post-silicon variability compensation techniques for full-swing and low-swing on-chip communication channels” Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe  Conference and Exhibition 2009, Nice, France, Apr 20-24, 2009, pp. 1404-1409
14.	G. Paci, A Nackaerts, F Catthoor, L. Benini, P. Marchal “How to Live with Uncertainties: Exploiting the Performance Benefits of Self-Timed Logic In Synchronous Design” Proceedings of 11th Euromicro Conference On Digital System Design, DSD  2008,
Parma, Italy, Sept 3-5, 2008
15.	P.G. Del Valle, D. Atienza, G. Paci, F. Poletti, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, J.M. Mendias, R. Hermida “Application of FPGA Emulation to SoC Floorplan and Packaging xploration”
Proceedings of XII Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS), Sevilla, Spain, Nov 2007, pp. 236-240 
16.	G. Paci, P. Marchal, L. Benini “Exploration of Low Power Adders for a SIMD Data Path” Proceedings of the Design, Automation  Conference, 2007. ASP-DAC '07. Asia and South Pacific 2007, Yokohama, Japan, Jan 23-26, 2007, pp. 914-919
17.	D. Atienza, P. Del Valle, G. Paci, F. Poletti, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, J.M. Mendias “A fast HW/SW FPGA-based thermal emulation framework for multi-processor system-on-chip” Proceedings of the Design, Automation  Conference, 2006. 43rd ACM/IEEE 2006, San Fransisco, California, USA, July 24-28, 2006, pp. 618-623
18.	G. Paci, P. Marchal, F. Poletti, L. Benini “Exploring "temperature-aware" design in low-power MPSoCs” Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe  Conference and Exhibition 2006, Munich, Germany, Mar 6-10, 2006, pp. 838-843

•	Printed circuit board design and prototyping
–	Tools
	Orcad Capture CIS 16.3 (schematic)
	Orcad PCB Editor 16.3  (layout)
	PSpice AD (simulation)
	Orcad Layout 9.2 (layout)
	Eagle 5.11 (schematic, layout)
	CircuitCAM 6.1 (CAM, Computer Aid Manufacturing)
	BoradMaster 5.0 (CAM)
	LPKF ProtoMat S62 (advanced Circuit Board Plotter)
–	Techniques and skills
	Iron SMD soldering down to 0402 packages
	Reflow soldering
	QFN, DFN, QFP, SOIC, DIP package mounting procedure
	Multilayer PCB
	Multi-stack design
	Component selection
	Product engineering
	Circuit design
	Layout design
	Industrialization start up

•	Microcontroller Architecture 
–	ARM: 
	ARM7 TDMI, ARM CORTEX M0,M3,M4
–	Texas Instruments
	MSP430 family
–	NXP
	JN5148, JN5139
–	Zilog
	Z80
–	ATMEL
	ATmega family
–	MICROCHIP
	PIC24 PIC18
–	INTEL
	8051 family
–	SAMSUNG
	S3C44B0x
–	ST
	STM32F4XX, STM32F3XX, STM32F1XX families
–	PLC Schneider – Electric
	M171
–	Interface
	ADC, DAC, comparator, DMA, FLASH, Timer, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO

•	Radio data transceiver protocols
–	ZigBee, Bluetooth, WiFi, 802.15.4, GSM/GPRS/UMTS

•	BUS dati wired
–	USB, KNX, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, TCP/IP, CAN

•	Embedded and real time operative systems
–	uClinux, TinyOs, FreeRTOS, JenOS

•	Firmware and software languages
–	Assembler, C/C++, Java

•	Embedded data processing algorithms
–	DCT, FFT transformers
–	AC current analysis
–	Voice VAD, VOCODER, compression and algorithms
–	Image people detection algorithms
–	Data compression algorithms
–	FIR and IIR filters
–	PID, Fuzzy, MPC

•	Sensors, actuators and special circuits
–	Sensor interface, power management and deployment
	Gas sensors, Accelerometers, Gyroscopes, Temperature, Humidity, Pressure, Light intensity, Strength gauge, PIR 
–	Actuators and human interfaces
	LCD monitor, touch screen capacitivi e induttivi, Audio interfaces, Leds, buttons, Step motors, Solenoid valves.
–	Power management and energy harvesting and scavenging
	Solar cells, Wind scavenger
–	Termografia
	Sensori per termografia FLIR

•	 Microelectronics design
–	Synthesis Tools
	Synopsys, DesignCompiler, PhysicalCompiler, LibraryCompiler, PowerCompiler, PrimeTime, PrimePower, Cadence SoCEncounter, SignalStorm, Virtuoso IC Custom Layout
–	Simulation Tools
	Synopsys Hspise, Mentor Modelsim, Cadence Spectre Analog Artist
•	Platforms
–	Windows, Sun OS/Solaris, Linux, Apple
•	Languages
–	Assembler, C, C++, VHDL, verilog, systemC, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Matlab, Bash, QT QML.	

Ottimo spirito di gruppo e capacità di adeguamento ad ambienti multiculturali.

Ottima attitudine alla gestione di progetti e di gruppi.

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