Massimo Alioto
Information Engineering Dept.

University of Siena
Via Roma, 56

53100 Siena (Italy)

phone: +39 0577 234632
fax:     +39 0577 233602


 

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Current position:

Associate Professor of Electronics (ING-INF/01) at the Information Engineering Dept. (DII) of the University of Siena.

Currently, visiting professors at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) at the University of California, Berkeley.

 

CV and publications:

·        Curriculum Vitae (in italian)

·        Curriculum Vitae (in english)

·        List of recent selected publications (from year 2006)

 ·        Full list of publications

 

Research interests: 

·        Low-Power and ultra-low power nanometer circuits (modeling and transistor-level design)

·        FinFET logic circuits (BB techniques to enhance the efficiency of the leakage-delay tradeoff)

·        Analysis and modeling of variability and leakage in sub-100 nm CMOS technologies

·        Optimized design of nanometer arithmetic and logic circuits at the gate level

·        Design of VLSI circuits in emerging technologies (Si-NW, CNTs…)

·     MOS Current-Mode Logic (MCML) circuits: modeling and design

·        Low-standby current cache memories based on charge recycling

·        Design of circuits for cryptography (resistant against Differential Power Analysis attacks, Random and Pseudo-random number generators based on chaotic maps)

 

 

Current projects:

·        Conventional (bulk) versus emerging nanoscale CMOS technologies: a comparative evaluation from the device to the system level

·        Delay variability versus process, voltage and temperature variations: modeling and comparison of logic styles

·        Analysis and design of Flip-Flop topologies in sub-100 nm technologies: metrics, sizing strategies and comparison

·        Study of DPA-tolerant cryptographic algorithms and devices

 

 

Teaching activities (in italian):

·        Elettronica (Arezzo)

·        Elettronica e dei sistemi digitali: modulo su progettazione con FPGA e linguaggi HDL (Arezzo)

·        Elettronica e tecnologia dei sistemi digitali

·        Laboratorio "Elettronica per l'automazione"

·        Laboratorio "Progettazione di circuiti elettronici"


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My bookmarks:

IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems                   Microelectronics Journal                   Integration – the VLSI Journal

IEEE Trans. on CAS – part I                     IEEE Trans. on CAS – part II           Int. Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications

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