Who am I?
Valeggio, 2023
I’m Daniel, a microelectronics engineer working on cutting-edge optical links, with a general passion for electronics since I was 13 years old. Based in Italy, from the best analog microelectronics school around (and they know it).
What is this blog about
In principle, I wanted to make a web log for my learning activity on digital design and FPGA. But deep down, I’m an analog circuit designer, and even deeper, a physicist. So I guess at some point the topics will branch out into many of my other interests. But what blog writer doesn’t do that?
Why is this blog necessary?
I used to write blogs back in the 2010s about machine learning, data science and numerical simulation of complex systems. Over the years I moved on to different things and took the old blog down. But in the end I like the learning process that comes from writing and summarizing information. If other people can understand it, that means I got it right. Akin to the teacher learning from the student, except the student is me as well.
So basically, it is necessary for me, but with the hope that the quality is high enough for you to get some use out of this information as well.
Why there is that little shack in the navbar?
Among my many dreams, there is this one of going off the grid (partially). So I’m looking for ways to have this small house in the mountains, some mini cows, mini donkeys, goats, chickens and Wi-Fi to keep doing what I love. This blog itself is a move towards that future, hence I see the point in putting a symbol of my end goal somewhere I won’t lose sight of it.
Publications
1 A 200Gb/s Low Power DSP-Based Optical Receiver and Transmitter with Integrated TIA and Laser Drivers
2 A 5nm 60GS/s 7b 64-Way Time Interleaved Partial Loop Unrolled SAR ADC Achieving 34dB SNDR up to 32GHz
3 A 5-nm 60-GS/s 7b 64-Way Time Interleaved Partial Loop Unrolled SAR ADC Achieving 35.2dB SNDR up to 32 GHz
4 An Eight-Lane 800-Gb/s Transceiver for PAM-4 Optical Direct-Detection Applications in 5-nm FinFET Process