Rinaldo Castello ( Full Professor)

Phone: +39 0382 985 213 (Office - F Floor)

Phone: +39 0382 985 227 (Lab - Edificio Segreterie - 2nd Floor)

Brief Curriculum

Rinaldo Castello (S’78–M’78–SM’92–F’99) graduated from the University of Genova (summa cum laude) in 1977 and received the M.S. and the Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in ‘81 and ‘84. From ‘83 to ‘85 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1987 he joined the University of Pavia where he is now a Full Professor. He consulted for ST-Microelectronics, Milan, Italy up to 2005 in ‘98 he started a joint research centre between the University of Pavia and ST and was its Scientific Director up to ‘05. He promoted the establishing of several design centre from multinational IC companies around Pavia, among them Marvell for which he was a consultant from 2005 to 2016. He is now consulting for InvenSense. Rinaldo Castello has been a member of the TPC of the European Solid State Circuit Conference (ESSCIRC) since 1987 and of the International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) from ‘92 to ‘04. He was Technical Chairman of ESSCIRC '91 and General Chairman of ESSCIRC ‘02, Associate Editor for Europe of the IEEE J. of Solid-State Circ. from '94 to '96 and Guest Editor of its July '92 special issue. From 2000 to 2007 he has been Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid State Circuit Society. Prof Castello was named one of the outstanding contributors for the first 50 and 60 years of ISSCC and a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2005 Symposium on VLSI of the Best Invited Paper Award at the 2011 CICC and of the Best Evening Panel Award at ISSCC 2012 and 2015. He was one of the two European representatives at the Plenary Distinguished Panel of ISSCC 2013 and the Summer 2014 Issue of the IEEE Solid State Circuit Magazine was devoted to him. Rinaldo Castello is a Fellow of the IEEE

Recent Publications

A. Mohammadpour, D. Manstretta and R. Castello, "A 140μW Front-end with 5.7 dB NF and +10 dBm OOB-IIP3 using Voltage-Mode Boosting Mixer," in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, doi: 10.1109/LMWC.2021.3066420.
J. Jin, J. Wu, R. Castello and D. Manstretta, "A 4.8dB NF, 440 μW Bluetooth Receiver Front-End with a Cascode Noise Cancelling LNTA," in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, doi: 10.1109/LMWC.2021.3062901.
A. Mohammadpour, D. Manstretta and R. Castello, "A 140μW Front-end with 5.7 dB NF and +10 dBm OOB-IIP3 using Voltage-Mode Boosting Mixer," in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, doi: 10.1109/LMWC.2021.3066420.
J. Jin, J. Wu, R. Castello and D. Manstretta, "A 4.8dB NF, 440 μW Bluetooth Receiver Front-End with a Cascode Noise Cancelling LNTA," in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, doi: 10.1109/LMWC.2021.3062901.
E. Kargaran, C. Bryant, D. Manstretta, J. Strange and R. Castello, "A Sub-0.6V, 330 µW, 0.15 mm2 Receiver Front-End for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in 22 nm FD-SOI with Zero External Components," 2019 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), 2019, pp. 169-172, doi: 10.1109/A-SSCC47793.2019.9056899.
E. Kargaran, B. Guo, D. Manstretta and R. Castello, "A Sub-1-V, 350- $\mu$ W, 6.5-dB Integrated NF Low-IF Receiver Front-End for IoT in 28-nm CMOS," in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 29-32, April 2019, doi: 10.1109/LSSC.2019.2917870.
L. Aschei, N. Cordioli, P. Rossi, D. Montanari, R. Castello and D. Manstretta, "A 42-GHz TIA in 28-nm CMOS With Less Than 1.8% THD for Optical Coherent Receivers," in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 3, pp. 238-241, 2020, doi: 10.1109/LSSC.2020.3012691.
K. Sohal, D. Manstretta and R. Castello, "A 2nd Order Current-Mode Filter with 14dB Variable Gain and 650MHz to 1GHz Tuning-Range in 28nm CMOS," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401498.
B. Guo, D. Prevedelli, R. Castello and D. Manstretta, "A 0.08mm2 1-6.2 GHz Receiver Front-End with Inverter-Based Shunt-Feedback Balun-LNA," 2020 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2020, pp. 379-382, doi: 10.1109/RFIC49505.2020.9218307.
G. Pini, D. Manstretta and R. Castello, "Analysis and Design of a 260-MHz RF Bandwidth +22-dBm OOB-IIP3 Mixer-First Receiver With Third-Order Current-Mode Filtering TIA," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1819-1829, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2020.2987715.
G. Pini, D. Manstretta and R. Castello, "A 260-MHz RF Bandwidth Mixer-First Receiver With Third-Order Current-Mode Filtering TIA," ESSCIRC 2019 - IEEE 45th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 2019, pp. 183-186, doi: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2019.8902498.
M. D. Salehi, D. Manstretta and R. Castello, "A 150-MHz TIA with un-Conventional OTA Stabilization Technique via Local Active Feed-Back," 2019 15th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), 2019, pp. 5-8, doi: 10.1109/PRIME.2019.8787777.

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