CORE TEAM

Pablo Aguirre, Ing., M.Sc.

Mr. Aguirre holds M.Sc. and Electrical Engineering degrees both in the area of analog integrated circuits design. His field of expertise is low-power analog design. Since 2001, Mr. Aguirre has worked as a researcher at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, in the areas of analog design automation, amplifier design, ultra-low-power design and continuous time filters.

Marcelo Baru, Ing., M.A.Sc.

Mr. Baru has over 14 years of international experience in ASICs and hybrid circuits for safety-critical applications. Prior to co-founding NanoWattICs, Mr. Baru held the positions of Sr. IC Design Engineer/Project Manager at Neurostream Technologies Inc. (Canada) where he co-invented and patented the company's first implantable medical device (NeuroStep) and led the Electronic Development Team. More recently, he worked as Director of Engineering for Adnavance Technologies Inc. (Canada, U.S.A.), an IVD company developing the next generation of rapid molecular diagnostic instruments. He has extensive knowledge in the areas of Microelectronics, AIMDs, and BioMEMS. He holds a M.A.Sc. degree from Simon Fraser University, Canada and an Electronic Engineering degree from Universidad de la República, Uruguay, both in the area of integrated circuit design.

Conrado Rossi, Ing.

Conrado Rossi has been involved in IC Design since 1991. He has extensive experience planning and leading R&D analog and mixed-signal ASIC projects, particularly for ultra-low-power systems such as implantable medical devices and wireless sensors. Mr. Rossi also has in-depth knowledge of ultra-low-power biasing circuits and temperature sensors, and has led the design of an industry-standard-compatible, low-power micro-controller core.

Fernando Silveira, Ing., Ph.D.

Dr. Silveira has more than 16 years of experience in R&D of analog and mixed-signal ICs, and systems design, particularly for medical devices. Dr. Silveira led the design of an ASIC for implantable pacemakers which is in full industrial production, and has designed IC cells and at least eight analog circuit modules (for companies in the USA, Israel, Europe and Canada) that are part of medical devices currently under human clinical trials mainly in the cardiovascular and neurology fields. Dr. Silveira is the author of a book on the design of analog ICs for implantable medical devices and several peer-reviewed papers on design of ultra-low-power analog circuits. Dr. Silveira has an Electronic Engineering degree from Universidad de la República, Uruguay, and a Masters and a Ph.D. degree from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is a part-time Associate Professor at Universidad de la República and senior member of the IEEE.