Dr. Marco Meola

System design and architecture definition of True Digital PWM Controllers for PoL DC-DC converters: - Single&Multi Phase PWM controllers - Voltage and Current loop - Non Linear control techniques - Control design algorithms in Matlab/Simulink - System ID and machine learning algorithms System Level modelling with Matlab/Simulink System Level modelling in SIMETRIX/SIMPLIS

• Customer support for True Digital PWM controllers, DrMOS drivers and Controller + FET driver products • Development of models for Smart Power Management products in SIMPLIS environment • Lab analysis, silicon debugging, Evaluation Board development • Technical writing

• Coordination of digital design activity of automotive sensor interfaces • Design and implementation of a digitally controlled Linear Voltage Regulator (LVR) • Definition/concept of automotive sensor interface core logic and sensor data management • Definition/concept of VHDL models of analogue front-end and sensors for automotive applications

• Modeling of analog and digital regulators in Matlab/SIMULINK for Buck converters • Loop gain measurement in CADENCE/SPECTE to validate the small-signal Buck model in MATLAB • LCO and stability analysis in digitally controlled SMPS: describing functions

Modeling, design and implementation of digitally controlled DC-DC converter, control techniques in PFM, PC-based interface of digital controllers for investigation of power losses distribution

Modeling, design and implementation of digitally controlled DC-DC converters, with particular focus on Multi-Mode converters

Focus on Computer Programming languages and prototyping of digital systems on FPGA.