Personale docente

Graduated with honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Parma in 1993, Andrea Boni received a PhD in Information Technologies from the same university in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he held research appointments at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Parma, working on European projects and projects funded by a silicon foundry. From 1999 to 2002, he was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Parma. Since November 2002, he has been an Associate Professor of Electronics at the same university.
Prof. Boni is currently head of the Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design Laboratory (AMSIC) at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma. This research group has carried out numerous projects funded by public sources (national and European) and through collaborations with European and U.S. industries.
His research activity has focused on the following topics in the field of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design in silicon technologies (CMOS and BiCMOS):
1. Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) and high-frequency sample-and-hold amplifiers (including an 8-bit 200 MHz ADC in BiCMOS technology, a 10-bit 100 MHz ADC in 0.35 µm CMOS, a 6-bit 2 GHz ADC in SiGe BiCMOS, and a 14-bit 100 MS/s pipeline ADC in 0.18 µm CMOS).
2. Low-power Sigma-Delta converters. A 16-bit ADC in 90 nm technology was designed in collaboration with STMicroelectronics.
3. Circuits for autonomous devices, including fixed and scalable voltage references with power consumption in the nanoampere range, linear voltage regulators with ultra-low quiescent current, and RF energy harvesting circuits.
4. Mixed-signal memory accelerators for convolutional neural networks (DNNs), with particular focus on new memory cells (both volatile and non-volatile) and memory input (D/A) and output (A/D) interfaces.
Furthermore, Andrea Boni was involved in several projects focused on embedded devices for healtcare and medical applications. Also, he is leading a research activity targeting innovative devices for plant monitoring in precision agriculture.
Prof. Boni is the author of over 100 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings, as well as two international patents.
Andrea Boni is an Associate Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics and a member of the editorial board of the journal MDPI Electronics.