SPEAKERS' BIOGRAPHIES

Riccardo Groppo took his MS degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy); further academic background was provided by attending a specialist course at M.I.T. (USA, Boston, rif. Prof.J.Kassakian) about Power Electronics. He started his career with Honeywel Bull (Caluso, Torino) involved in the design of ATE for minicomputers. Later on he joined Centro Ricerche FIAT (CRF) in 1989, where he was involved in the design of innovative engine/vehicle automotive control sytems (ECU). Then he was a member of the CRF team which developed the first automotive common rail system for a direct injection diesel engine worldwide and transferred the technology towards R.Bosch until the start of production on the Alfa Romeo 156 (1997). Since 2002 he is the Head of the Automotive Electronics Design and Development Dept. at CRF, where he is promoting the design of IP building blocks by means of ASIC technology for the FIAT applications. He has been fully involved in the design of the MultiAir and TCT control systems which are both based on proprietary mixed ASIC technology. He owns more than 25 patents in the field of automotive electronics and embedded systems, most of which are currently in production on passenger cars. He has presented papers in the most relevant congress worldwide and has been the Technical Chair of the 1st International Congress “Automotive Electronics: driving the future of powertrain and electrification” organised by ATA (Torino, June 2010).

Patrick Leteinturier has 21 years of experience in Automotive Electronics. He has the grade senior principal on the technical ladder. He is currently responsible for system architecture of silicon products (silicon sensors, micro-controllers, silicon smart powers, and power modules) for powertrain applications. In 2001 he was leading the activity X-by-wire as director. He is consultant of several system and car vendors in designing powertrain systems. He started his career at Lucas and SAGEM to develop powertrain electronic systems for PSA and Renault. He has various patents on automotive electronics. He is holding more than 20 SAE publications and being member of the SAE Engineering Meetings Board. Patrick Leteinturier received his Mechanical Engineering degree from ENSAM: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers (France) in 1987 and his Electric & Electronic Engineering degree from ESE: Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (France) in 1990. He is guest professor at Tianjin University (China) since 2006.

Erwan Hemon is global design manager at Freescale and is responsible for managing design centers dedicated to analog, mixed signal design for automotive applications. He has been in this role for the last 4 years based in phoenix (Arizona) and more recently in Toulouse (France). Prior to this, he worked at Motorola Semiconductors and managed the Toulouse design centers (France) during 6 years, focused on mixed signal design in smart-power technology for use in automotive and Power Over Ethernet applications. Prior to this role he worked as an analog design engineer on several automotive products like airbags power management, lighting drivers, multiplexing asics… Before joining Motorola Semiconductors, he worked as design engineer at Philips Semiconductors in Caen (France) on various analog products for Hard Disk Drive market as well as telephony ICs. Overall he has been working on Mixed Signal ICs for 20 years and has applied for 9 patents in those areas. Erwan Hemon graduated as an electronic engineer from the French Grande Ecole “ENSERG” Grenoble’s National Institute of Electronics and Radio-Electricity in 1990.

Pascal Caunegre is project lead for the development of an analog & mixed-signal design verification platform at Freescale Semiconductor. From within the Flows and Methodology organization that has global responsibility for the design methods and flows at Freescale, Pascal drives since over 10 years the definition, development and support of a software platform that aims at automating the verification of analog and mixed signal systems performance. Under his expertise and leadership, the platform provides innovative responses to an increasing number of technologies and design challenges towards achieving first pass success, high yield and robustness in support of a zero defect strategy for analog mixed-signal system targeted for automotive applications. Pascal has over 20 years of experience in Analog and Mixed Signal Design & Test tools and flows. He obtained his Electrical Engineering Degree from INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) in Toulouse, and a PhD in the area of fault simulation in mixed signal systems with Siemens Automotive.

Manfred Thanner took his degree in Industrial Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Ulm (Germany) in 1995. Since 1995 he has been working with Robert Bosch in the development of Smart Power devices. His current position is Technical Staff Systems Engineer in Freescale Semiconductor responsible for system level simulation in the Micro Controller Systems Group. Responsible for the development and deployment of virtual platforms in FSL and inter-company relations. Main interest is the Electronic System Level design for automotive in combinations processor simulators, mixed signal extensions and related software developments and processes

Franco Toto, born in Bologna (Italy) in 1972, has got a master in Electronic Engineer from University of Pisa (Italy) in 1997. After working for 1 year in a SW development firm, he joined STMicroelectronics Central R&D organization in 1999, where his main interests where in formal methods applied to verifications (model checking), assertion languages, hibryd solutions; in 2007 he joined ST's Automotive Product Group as senior verification engineer, involved in verification of both block level and SoC level projects through both formal methods and simulation.

Davide Appello is with STMicroelectronics since 1994. He currently manages Silicon Validation and Test engineering activities of digital products for the Automotive Products Group.  He received a engineering degree in electronic from the University of Pavia in Italy. He's major interests are test and testability, diagnosis and DFM. He is currently member of the program committee of some conferences including DATE, VTS, ETS

Matteo Sonza Reorda took his MS degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy) in 1986, and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the same Institution in 1990. Since 1990 he works with the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation of Politecnico di Torino, where he is currently a Full Professor. His main research interests include Testing and Fault Tolerant design of electronic circuit and systems. Matteo SONZA REORDA has published more than 250 papers on international journals and conference proceedings. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has been the General (1998) and Program Co-chair (2002, 2003) of the IEEE International On-line Testing Symposium (IOLTS), the Program Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS) in 2006, and the General Chair of the IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS) in 2008. Currently, he is the chair of the European Test Technology Technical Council (eTTTC).