Academic position: | Associate Professor |
Joining date: | 01-01-1999 |
Roles in IT: | Senior Researcher |
Thematic Line: | Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies |
Group: | Integrated Circuits - Lx |
Nuno Horta (S’89–M’97–SM’11) received the Licenciado, MSc, PhD and Habilitation degrees in electrical engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1989, 1992, 1997 and 2014, respectively. He is an Associate Professor at IST Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is a Senior Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, where he is the head of the Integrated Circuits Group. He has supervised more than 90 post graduation works between MSc and PhD theses. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications as books, book chapters, international journals papers and conferences papers. He has also participated as researcher or coordinator in several National and European R&D projects. He was General Chair of AACD 2014, PRIME 2016 and SMACD 2016 and was member of the organizing and technical program committees of several other conferences, e.g., IEEE ISCAS, IEEE LASCAS, DATE, NGCAS, etc. He is Associated Editor of Integration, The VLSI Journal, from Elsevier, and usually acts as reviewer of several prestigious publications, e.g., IEEE TCAD, IEEE TEC, IEEE TCAS, ESWA, ASC, etc. His research interests are mainly in analog and mixed-signal IC design, analog IC design automation, soft computing and data science.
Acronym | Name | Funding Agency | Start date | Ending date |
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PROMISE | PROgrammable MIxed Signal Electronics | EU/H2020 | 01-01-2020 | 31-12-2022 |
SYSTEMIC-RF | Automated synthesis methodology for reliable RF integrated circuits | EU/H2020 | 01-09-2021 | 31-08-2023 |
Acronym | Name | Funding Agency | Start date | Ending date |
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AIDA | AIDA – Automated P-Cell Generation based on Multi-Objective Optimization and Pareto Optimal Front Circuit Level Characterization | IT/LA | 01-10-2011 | 01-12-2013 |
AIDA-C | AIDA-C: Analog IC Optimizer | Thales Alenia Space | 01-10-2013 | 01-11-2021 |
AISMAD | AISMAD – Advanced Integrated Switched-Mode Audio Drivers | IT/LA | 01-07-2011 | 01-12-2013 |
DISRUPTIVE | DISRUPTIVE - A Paradigm Shift in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Nanoelectronic Circuits and Systems | FCT | 01-04-2013 | 01-12-2016 |
EVOLUTION | Exploring Evolutionary Computation to Enhance Analog IC Design Automation Methodologies | FCT/POSC | 01-08-2005 | 31-07-2007 |
HEAD | HEAD – Integrated Class D Audio Amplifier with High Efficiency | IT/LA | 01-11-2008 | 01-11-2010 |
LAY(RF)^2 | Ready-to-Fabricate RF and mmWave Integrated Circuit Layouts | IT | 01-02-2020 | 31-01-2022 |
LAYGEN | Automatic Layout Generation of Mixed-Signal ICs | IT/LA | 01-04-2006 | 31-03-2008 |
OPERA | OPERA - Layout-Aware Analog IC Design Automation | IT/LA | 01-03-2014 | 01-02-2016 |
PLASTIC | Fully Patterned all Plastic Integrated Circuits | IT/LA | 01-07-2005 | 01-09-2007 |
SCALES | SCALES - Simulation Tool for Pipeline ADCs | Thales Alenia Space | 01-04-2011 | 01-04-2014 |
Space-DCDC | Space-DCDC – DC-DC controller for space applications | IT/LA | 01-10-2008 | 01-10-2010 |
SPEED | Low Power Ultra-High Speed Analogue-to-Digital Converter for Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications | FCT/PTDC | 01-09-2007 | 01-03-2011 |