Internship Design of a HighPerformance CurrentFeedback Instrumentation Amplifier FM

Overview:

NXP Italy has a strong foundation in the Italian market which began more than 40 years ago with Philips and Motorola Semiconductor. Our team members build solutions that enable secure connections for a smarter world advancing solutions that make our lives easier better and safer.

The NXP offices in Italy are based in Milan and Catania. We do have a presence with front-end customers (sales and field application engineers) or R&D department developing next generation of solution for automotive and industrial market. NXP supports its customers with a large portfolio of solutions for Industry 4.0 connected electrical vehicles and cybersecurity.

NXP is supporting the digitalization and transformation of the business model for many companies in the second largest semiconductor market in the EMEA region.

Assignment:

The thesis work centers on the design and exploration of various topologies of currentfeedback instrumentation amplifiers. This class of circuits is essential in both biomedical and industrial domains enabling the precise and lownoise processing of sensorderived signals.

The candidate will investigate multiple architectures within the instrumentationamplifier family with the primary challenge being the improvement of linearity and the treatment of noise. This includes experimenting with chopping techniquespotentially enhanced through ripplereduction loopsand performing comprehensive PVT and Monte Carlo analyses to assess robustness and variability.

Ultimately the candidate will contribute significantly to the development and refinement of an advanced instrumentationamplifier topology pushing its performance in terms of accuracy stability and noise efficiency.

Your Responsibilities:

• Develop InDepth Understanding of OTA amplifiers
• Analytical skills in noise analysis and linearity evaluation for integratedcircuit architectures
• Simulate and design circuit blocks

Your Profile:

• MSc student in Electronic Engineering with an emphasis on IC design
• Affinity with the state of art analog design/verification flow and tools preferably with Cadence tooling
• Creative and positive mindset
• Flexible and eager for new challenges
• Good communication and documentation skills in English
• Desire for a career in analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design

Contact:

Mario Chiricosta
Analog Design Director
for permanent job opportunities

NXP is committed to equal pay for equal work and work of equal value and applies fair consistent and transparent remuneration practices.

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