Last Name / First Name: Vlassis Spyros

Position: Professor

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Spiros Vlassis received his B.Sc.(1994) in Physics, the M.Sc.(1996) in Electronics and his Ph.D. (2000), from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. After PhD he worked as a senior engineer for VC-funded startup companies in the development and commercialization of high-performance RFICs for wireless communications and RF MEMS sensors for consumer applications. He has one US patent and has published over 50 papers in journals and conferences. He is currently assistant professor in Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece.

He is representative of the Electronics Laboratory to Hellenic Semiconductor Indrustry Association (HSIA). He is now involved in the actions under the Program Phase 2 "Support Greek Technology in Microelectronics Cluster" in the financing of the General Secretariat Research and Technology. He is working on Micromegas detector development for SLHC and Nuclear Physics applications and he has joined the EDM collaboration planning to measure the Electric Dipole Moment of protons and deuterons at Brookhaven USA.

He is a member of Analog Integrated Circuits Design group.

A detailed CV of Prof. Spiros Vlassis can be found here.

• [2000] Ph.D., Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Thesis title: “Non-linear Integrated Circuit Design for Signal Processing”)

• [1996] M.Sc. in Electronics, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Thesis title: “Pressure Sensors Interfacing Circuits”)

• [1994] B.Sc. in Physics, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

• Wireless transceivers
• Companding Filters
• Bulk-driven analog building blocks
• Floating-gate MOS circuits
• Analog non-linear building blocks
• Analog non-linear CMOS filters for image processing
• Interfacing IC for smart pressure sensors
• Applications specific analog circuits designs

• Applied Electronics Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Patras
• National center for Scientific research (NCSR) “Demokritos” Institute of Microelectronics
• Electronics Department, Technological institution of Piraeus.

• [1996-1998] ASIC design for smart sensor interfacing circuit, University of Patras, Greece.
• [2006-2007] Frequency synthesizers for UWB receiver, University of Patras, Greece.
• [2009-2012] Innovated sensors systems development with distributed intelligence -MEMsense. ( Financing by Corallia, National resource, European Regional Development Fund 2007-2013, project no. 84009,
  MICRO-49/ Ε-ΙΙ-Α)
• [2009-2012] Next generation millimeter wave radio-link, -NextGenMiliWave ( Financing by Corallia, National resource, European Regional Development Fund 2007-2013, project no.84702 MICRO-49/ Ε-ΙΙ-A)

[2006–currently] Assistant professor

University of Patras, Physics Dept., Electronics Laboratory

[2006–2008] Independent technical consultant

Involved in the design, development and manufacturing of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). The products are integrated electronics and micromechanical elements on silicon wafers and computer chips. Involved in the development of integrated TCXO based on MEMS devices and RF front-end modules (FEMs).

Design experience includes:

• ALC loops (CMOS, BiCMOS)
• Mathematical function generator circuits (BiCMOS)
• Voltage regulators (CMOS)
• Frequency divider with programmable consumption (CMOS)
• Voltage and current references
• Signal detectors/indicators (BiCMOS, CMOS)
• Phase interpolator (Verilog)
• OPAMP design for many applications (CMOS,BiCMOS).

[2001-2007] Senior IC Engineer, “Theta Microelectronics”, Athens, Greece.

Involved in the development of several highly integrated direct-conversion and IF-conversion single-chip transceiver ICs with integrated synthesizer which targeted the 2.4 and 5 GHz wireless LAN markets.

Design experience includes:

• Programmable AGC loops (BiCMOS)
• DC-Servo calibration loops (CMOS, BiCMOS)
• ALC loops (CMOS, BiCMOS)
• Multiple bands MOSFET-C integrated filters (CMOS)
• Automatic control circuits (CMOS)
• Variable Gain Amplifiers (CMOS,BiCMOS)
• Voltage regulators (CMOS)
• Voltage and current references
• Signal detectors/indicators (BiCMOS, CMOS)
• TCXO driver (CMOS)
• OPAMP design for many applications (CMOS,BiCMOS).

Postgraduate Courses

M.Sc. Electronics and Communications, Physics Department, University of Patras

• «Analog Integrated Circuit Design» (1st semester, compulsory).
• «Telecommunication Electronics» (1st semester, compulsory).
• «Design of Mixed Integrated Systems» (3rd semester, optional).

M.Sc. Electronics and Information Processing, University of Patras

• «Analog Electronic Circuits» (1st semester, compulsory).

Undergraduate Courses

Physics Department, University of Patras

• «Electronics» (3rd semester, compulsory).
• «Electronics Laboratory» (4th semester, compulsory).
• «Analog Electronics Laboratory» (8th semester, optional).
• «Physics Laboratory IV» (4th semester, compulsory).
• «Microelectronics» (8th semester, compulsory).