Andrea Costantino

Electronic Hardware Design Engineer at Spintel S.r.l. in the R&D department (Rende, Italy). -Circuit models simulations based on discrete component libraries (P-,LTSpice); -Design of AC/DC flyback converters, DC/DC converters; -Design of power supply and charging circuits for low power devices; -PCB design based on circuits simulations (Eagle, KiCAD); -Design and realization of 3D objects (SketchUp, Makerbot); -Assembling and testing of prototypes using oscilloscopes and digital multimeters

Internship at IMEC Leuven (Belgium), Memory Device Design group. •Electrical characterization of TMO-RRAM cells through several algorithms implemented by myself in ANSI C language; •Automatic data collection at probe station and automatic data processing with MATLAB scripts; •Experimental simulation and evaluation of the correlation between inputs and outputs of a neural network emulated by memristors matrix. Skills: multicultural teamwork; Software: MATLAB, Origin, MS Office, Igor, Keithley GUI

Topic: home automation, smart devices, safety and security, low consumption devices, ambient assisted living, wireless sensor networks

Dissertation: Measure automation and evaluation of programming strategies for TMO RRAM

Dissertation: MPPT based on the incremental conductance method with variable step rate