Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yiannos Manoli
Chair of Microelectronics

Yiannos Manoli was born in Famagusta, Cyprus, in 1954. As a Fulbright scholar, he received the B.A. degree (summa cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1978 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. He obtained the Dr.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the  Gerhard Mercator Universität in Duisburg, Germany, in 1987.

From 1980 to 1984 he worked at the  Universität of Dortmund, Germany, in the field of digital and analog MOS integrated circuit design with an emphasis on A/D and D/A converters. This was also also the topic of his dissertation: "Components and Architectures for Fast High-Resolution A/D and D/A Converters".

In 1985 he joined the newly founded  Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in Duisburg where he established a design group for microsystem and microcontroller integrated circuits. His work there concentrated on mixed-signal CMOS circuits especially for monolithic integrated sensors such as surface micromachined pressure sensors, flow sensors, biosensors etc. Another highlight of his work was the design of application specific microcontrollers as well as novel architectures and development tools for such microcontrollers.

In Sept. 1996 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the  University of Saarland in Saarbruecken, Germany where he held the Chair of Microelectronics. His research interests were focused on the design of low-voltage/low-power mixed-signal CMOS circuits and VLSI embedded system design and design methodology. As department head (1998-2000) he initiated a number of reforms that boosted the research activities and enhanced the teaching curriculum of the department. In 2000 he had the opportunity to spend half a year on a research project with Motorola (now Freescale) in Phoenix, Arizona.

In July 2001 he was appointed Chair of Microelectronics at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the Albert-Ludwig-University in Freiburg, Germany. His current research interests are the design of low-voltage/low-power mixed-signal CMOS circuits, energy harvesting electronics, sensor read-out circuits as well as A/D- and D/A-converters. In 2006 he spent his sabbatical semester on a research project with Intel in Santa Clara, California.

Since May 2005, he and two IMTEK colleagues additionally serve as directors at the "Institute of Micro and Information Technology" of the “Hahn-Schickard Gesellschaft” (HSG-IMIT) in Villingen-Schwenningen. HSG-IMIT is a non-profit, applied research organization working on new ideas based on MEMS technologies. Here the research activities concentrate on energy harvesting with an emphasis on motion and vibration energy transducers as well as in the field of inertial sensors especially angular rate sensors or Gyros.

Yiannos Manoli received the best paper award of the "European Solid-State Circuits Conference" (ESCCIRC 1988) for the paper "A Self-Calibration Method for Fast High-Resolution A/D and D/A Converters", while his group has received awards for the following papers: "Novel Non-resonant Vibration Transducer for Energy Harvesting" at the Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Energy Applications (PowerMEMS 2005), for the article "Systematic Approach to the Synthesis of Continuous-Time Cascaded Sigma-Delta Modulators" at the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2007) and the paper "A Unified Environment for Design Entry and 3D Animation of Analog Circuit Schematics" at the IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education (MSE 2007). The MSE-2007 award was dedicated to Spicy VOLTsim, a web-based application for the animation and visualization of analog circuits for which Yiannos Manoli also received the Media Prize of his University in 2005. When the faculty introduced the "Best Teaching Award" in 2008 Professor Manoli was the first to receive this honor.

Professor Manoli serves on the committees of a number of conferences such as ISSCC and ESSCIRC and was Program Chair (2001) and General Chair (2002) of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD). He is part of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Low Power Electronics". He is reviewer in the review panel number 6 „Measurement and Information Systems“ der Arbeits-gemeinschaft Industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen (AIF) and member of the programme committee IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)

He is a member of Mortar Board, Phi Beta Kappa, IEEE, VDE and VDI.

Yiannos Manoli is married to Astrid Strasburger-Manoli and has three children Martha, Katina and Manolis.

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