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Gabriele Manganaro, an Analog Devices, Inc. engineering
director, has been named an IEEE (Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers) Fellow for his leadership in the
design of high speed converters. Elevation to an IEEE Fellow
involves a rigorous evaluation procedure and less than
0.1% of IEEE voting members are selected annually for this
prestigious honor.
Manganaro, who holds a Dr.Eng. and a Ph.D. degree in
Electronics from the University of Catania,
Italy, has been engineering director for
high speed converters at Analog Devices
since 2010. His career in data converter
design spans more than 20 years.
“Gabriele has been a highly visible
part of the industry’s data converter
community for many years, and he was
able to contribute to the efforts of ADI’s
high speed converter group immediately
when he joined us more than five years
ago,” said Dave Robertson, product line
director, High Speed Converter Group.
“The IEEE award recognizes the breadth
and depth of Gabriele’s impact over the
course of his career. Analog Devices
Tokyo, Hitachi, Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd.’s subsidiary
Honda R&D Co., Ltd. (Honda) announced they have
successfully developed a prototype of a portable alcohol
detector that is tamper-resistant as it can distinguish human
breath from alternative gases and that can be integrated
into smart key. This device is capable of distinctively
detecting the saturated water vapor from human breath
and accurately measuring alcohol level within 3 seconds
once a driver exhales breath onto the device. Hitachi and
Honda jointly collaborated on this technology development
in an effort to create the ideal alcohol detector.
They also developed a system that can show the alcohol
level measured by the detector on the vehicle’s display
panel. It can become an ignition interlock to stop a vehicle
starting its engine when it detects a driver under the
Hitachi and Honda Successfully Develop Prototype of
Portable Breath-based Alcohol Detection Device for
Vehicle Smart Keys
Analog Devices’ Gabriele Manganaro Elevated to IEEE Fellow
actively supports our engineers’ engagement in the IEEE
and other organizations to foster technical exchange across
the industry.”
Manganaro holds 13 U.S. patents, with more pending.
He has been the recipient of numerous scientific awards,
including the 1995 CEU Award from the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory (UK), the 1999 IEEE Circuits and Systems
Outstanding Young Award, and the 2007 IEEE European
Solid-State Circuits Conference Best
Paper Award. Manganaro has authored/
co-authored 60 papers and three books,
including “Advanced Data Converters,”
published by Cambridge University Press
in 2011. He was associate editor, then
deputy editor in chief, and finally editor
in chief for IEEE Trans. On Circuits and
Systems – Part I.
Manganaro served on the technical
sub-committee for data converters of
the ISSCC for seven consecutive years.
He is a Fellow of the IET (since 2009),
a member of Sigma Xi, and a member
of the Board of Governors for the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society.
influence of alcohol.
The effort to prevent or stop drunk driving is global and is
an on-going focus of progress in safe driving technology.
In Japan, transportation operators are required to use an
alcohol detector to test whether professional drivers are
under the influence of alcohol before they begin their shifts.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) has launched and directed the
development of ignition interlock technology that connects
alcohol detectors to a vehicle’s engine.
In addition, the Hitachi/Honda device can confirm that the
applied gas is human exhaled breath and can detect the
level of alcohol at the same time, an enhancement over
currently available devices.
Gabriele Manganaro, an Analog Devices,
Inc. engineering director
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