Federico Mazzarella

Part of the founding design team of Orca Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor start-up.

Power Management IC Analog Lead.

Project leader with responsibility of chip architecture, analog design, layout, verification and validation of PMIC for wearable applications.

Technical responsibility of teams of 5-7 analog engineers.

IPs developed/supervised: Battery charger, Input over voltage protectors, Low Power LDO, Buck, Buck-Boost, Boost, Haptic Driver, LED current sinks, SIMO

Analog Design Manager and Distinguished Engineer in MEMs inertial sensors business unit.

I joined the founding team of the Milan design center in 2015 and led the Milan analog design team to expand and become the go-to reference for the whole company, producing innovations in architecture and circuit design that drove 10x power and 2x area improvements.

Directly engaged with design process for custom designs for several tier 1 customers

Technical manager of multi-site, international project teams of ~15 analog designers, with 4 direct reports

Specified and architected the analog system and electronics for several generations of accelerometers/gyroscope sensors.

Designed or directly supervised critical blocks: mixed analog/digital control loops, sense/drive charge amplifiers, Sigma Delta ADC, SAR ADC, hybrid ADC, PLL, oscillators, regulators and charge pumps.

Initial objective specification, design, verification, layout supervision and silicon evaluation, including characterization and testing support.

I worked on single designer projects and in teams up to 5 members.

Circuit Expertise Area:

Main: Audio amplifiers, linear and switching.

Secondary: analog video filters/amplifiers, switching DC-DC converters

Circuits Developed:

Headphone amplifiers, classD amplifiers, Battery chargers, DC-DC buck, boost, buck-boost converters, audio and video filters, instrumentation amplifiers, temperature sensors, automatic level control circuits, OOK tranceivers, charge pumps, linear regulators, reference circuits.

Analog IC designer for the Flash Memories Business Unit.

Hardware-software designer of optoelectronics devices for telecommunication in Optical Networks Division

Firmware designer of real-time operative systems for military applications in Ada language