presentation of aed

Presented by:Claudio Stagni

http://www.arenagiochi.it/index.php/it/aed

OUTLINE

Where are we from?Who are we?ExperiencesExamplesCollaborations and new goals


Where are we from?

Arenagiochi s.r.l.

From 1956 is specialized in entertainment products (flipper, juke box, videogames…)Evolution to videogame (e.g., slot-machines) and necessity to design inside the company the products Creation of technical group of engineers and graphics


Company Skills

Hardware design


Software developmentTestCapability to obtain Certification for StringentGovernment Standards (protocol implementation and security remote comunication and control)ISO9001:2008 quality certificate

Why not?

Idea to applied our skills to other embedded application


AED creation:New experiences Increment know howIncrement capability of team working

Who are we?

Our Team

Claudio Stagni Degli Esposti (Electronic engineer)Simone Binetti (Physics)Simone Artesino (Computer science engineer)Mirco Cavina (technical school-leaving certificate)


Experiences

Claudio Stagni

M.S. electronic Engineering: 94/100Master’s Thesis:Capacitance Measurements to direct detect DNA hybridization .University of Bologna, Italy September 1996 – 17 july 2002

PhD Bachelor’s diploma on “Fully electrical sensors to detect biological reactions: PCB and Chip implementation”University of Bologna January 2004- December 2006


Claudio StagniActually Hardware/Firmware designer at Arenagiochi s.r.l. Imola on ARMarchitecture (e.g. PXA255, IMX51), Atmel, Microchip and intel x86 ATOM.From 2002 to 2007: at University of Bologna as Hw/Fw designer and test on low-cost Biosensors based on capacitance, optical (UV absorbance, chemiluminescence) and mass (QCM) measurements.Nov 2003-Nov 2004 at Infineon Technologies – Munich (Germany) One year research in the field of design and test of biochip (CPR lab)Speaker at DATE 2005 (Munich) and at ISSCC 2006 (San Francisco).From 2005 to 2007 Assistant Professor for “Digital electronic circuits”course and “Biosensors” course at the University of Bologna.


Skills:Analog and Digital design and test: Schematic and PCB: ORCAD/Allegro, PADS Logic and Layout.program language C, Assembler, environment Microchip MPLAB and IARLABVIEW language and virtual instrument implementation to control real instruments and to acquire and analyze data.

PCB Layout

Claudio Stagni


Schematic Design

Analysis and Simulation

Test

Simone Binetti

M.S. Physics: 110/110 cum laudeMaster’s Thesis:Study of twins of first and second order on silicon, with high resolution techniques based on electronic microscopy.University of Ferrara, Italy 18 december 1997


Simone BinettiActually software developer and coordinator between HW and SW development at Arenagiochi s.r.l. Imola on ARM architecture (e.g. PXA255) and new Intel platform ATOM.From 2000 to 2002: work for STMicroelectronics as researcher on dry etch process acquiring experience on plasma etching, optical measurements and characterization by mean of SEM and optical microscopy.In 1998 collaborates with University of Ferrara as researcher in semiconductor device for photovoltaic application. Assistant Professor in “Physics I” at Engineer Faculty.


Skills:program language C/C++, Pascal, Basic, FORTRAN, MatLab.Program on Qt (Qt creator, eclipse.), Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 / .NET , Fujitsu Softune , Microchip MPLAB and IAR. S.O.: developing on Linux (gentoo), knowledge of MS DOS, Windows 95/NT/2000/XP.

Simone Binetti


IAR C-developing on Xscale Eclipse C/C++

Visual basic/.NET

Simone Artesino

M.S. Computer science Engineering : 100/110 Master’s Thesis:Analysis and comparison of Grid Computing infrastructures and applications for the regional net “Lepida”University of Bologna, Italy 17 december 2008


Simone ArtesinoFrom January 2009 software and graphics developer at Arenagiochi s.r.l. Imola on new Intel platform ATOM.From September 2009 to August 2008 wins a scholarship at AUSL Imola on “application of ICT to medical services”


Skills:Strong OOAD: C/C++, java, uml, svn, openGLExperience in Graphic interface with Qt environmentGood 3D knowing: modeling, animation (3D Studio max), making of game engine (Ogre)Strong O.S. : Linux (Gentoo & Ubuntu), Windows (7/Xp) , AndroidProfiling & Code optimization with Valgrind and GNU ToolsDatabase design and management: db2, ms Access, mySQLWeb Master & Design (css, xmls, javascript, joomla, wp)

Simone Artesino


Qt Creator

Valgrind

OGRE&Qt

Mirco Cavina

High School “Istituto tecnico”, ImolaSeptember 1991 – July 1996


Mirco Cavina

From 1996 : work at Arenagiochi s.r.l. Imola as graphics developer (2D/3D graphics and video)


Skills: Design, modeling and animation with 3D Studio max, PaintShopPro

Mirco Cavina


Paintshop pro

3D Studio Max

Examples

HW: GamingBased on Intel Atom:

Dual indipendentmonitor1GB PATA SSDUSB, ETH, RS232Video (H264)2D/3D animationInterface with User SW based on Linux and Qt library


HW: Gaming


Dual 1024x768 monitorVideo and 2D/3D graphics simultaneosly

Button and Touch screen interface

Coordinator based on Imx51 freescale arm cortex A8 module

PoE (Power Over Ethernet)Zigbee, Wifi and Bluetooth integratedVideo output

Sensor module based on MC13224 forZigbee communication Temperature, light, pressure, HumidityUp to 4 sensor expansion modules


HW: Wireless sensors network

HW: GamingBased on PXA255:

800x600 VGA output32MB Flash MemoryRS2322D animationTouch screen Graphics library integrated (Jpeg, Gif,…)


SW: Gaming


2D - 3D graphics game

SW: Graphics Management


Manage and generates binary file to load on board

SW: Database


Manage database for production and fix

SW: PDA


Data collect and store on PDA

Communication with board

SW&Graphics: Gaming


Qt developedVideo: 1024x768 H.264 codec

New goals, …

Si14 – Design and test (http://www.si14.com/site/)

OCE - Production and test (http://www.oce-elettronica.com/)

Master Processing - PCB design (http://www.masterprocessing.it/)


… suppliers& collaborations

New project based on cortex A9 for multimedia and gaming application (Linux OS, Qt embedded, up to dual monitor, custom HW and SW configuration)

Thanks!


Appendices


I – Research on Biosensors


Capacitive Detection principleEL

ECTR

OD

E

RP

CP

RS

Counterionsdispacements

ELEC

TRO

DE

AppliedVoltage

(V<0)

e.g. DNA molecules

Examples: Biosensor

CBCM technique


Examples: Biosensor

CMOS based chip which features Gold electrodes

IN/OUT PadsX selector

Y selector

Array


Examples: Biosensor

LabView control


Examples: Biosensor

Measured cell

C1C2

ATMega128

DAC

ADC OPAMP

High flexibility → C and Assembler programmingOff-the-shelves componentsLow-costData processing performed bymicrocontroller

Examples: BiosensorSampling, integration and C evaluation

On PCB and discrete components

DAC

ADC

µPProg

Interfacciaseriale

Aliment.

Connectto the cellOPAMP

Riferimenti

Autotuning on meaurements input parametersSelf-contained

Sample rate: 30 Ksamples/sec withclock system at 8 MHzLow-noise. Errore 1.36% su 100pF

Examples: BiosensorOn PCB and discrete components


Examples: BiosensorMost important Publications

CMOS DNA Sensor Array with integrated A/D Conversion Based on Label-free Capacitance Measurement’ C.Stagni Degli Esposti, C.Guiducci, L.Benini, B.Riccò, S.Carrara, B.Samorì, C.Paulus, M.Schienle, M. Augustyniak and R.Thewes. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 2006.‘A Fully-Electronic Label-Free DNA sensor Chip’ Claudio Stagni, Carlotta Guiducci, Luca Benini, Bruno Riccò, Sandro Carrara, Bruno Samorì, Christian Paulus, MeinradSchienle, Roland Thewes IEEE Sensor Journal 7 (2007) 577-585‘Label-free cancer markers detection by capacitance biochip’, Sandro Carrara, Vijayender Bhalla, Claudio Stagni, Luca Benini, Anna Ferretti, Francesci Valle, Andrea Gallotta, Bruno Ricco’, Bruno Samori’, Sensors and Actuators B: chemical 136 (2009) 163–172‘CMOS Circuit design for label-free medical diagnostics’, Claudio Stagni, SandroCarrara, Carlotta Guiducci, Luca Benini, in “VLSI Circtui design for biomedical application” – (Edited by: Kris Iniewski) Artech House Publishers july 2008.‘Improving Probe Immobilization for Label-Free Capacitive Detection of DNA Hybridization on Microfabricated Gold Electrodes’ Sandro Carrara, Vijayender KumarBhalla, Claudio Stagni, Luca Benini, Bruno Riccò, Bruno Samorì, Sensors and Transducers, 88 (2008) 3.


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