Hello!!!
I am Alberto, a passionate microelectronics engineer and analog IC designer. After several years abroad, including working at GeDeC in Italy, I have finally settled down in Barcelona. Previously, I did my PhD designing a low-power solar energy harvester IC in San Sebastián. Before that, I lived, studied, and worked in Germany (Erfurt, Mannheim), Austria (Graz), and Poland.
Why do I write this web? I heavily support knowledge and scientific divulgation. I love sharing and spreading useful information to help others. However, due to confidentiality and copyright reasons, I am unable to share all the information I would like to.
Moreover, I love teaching. Since I was in the primary school or high school, I remember explaining math problems to my classmates. With the help of my father, who was a math teacher, I learn how to explain, reason, and help students to prepare for a specific physics or math test. Later, during my university years, I always earned my living by giving private lectures in the afternoons, on weekends and during the summer vacations.
Primarily, I taught mathematics and physics, but also electronics, chemistry, statistics, and even technical drawing. Yes, we used to learn technical drawing with a pencil, eraser, compass, rulers, and triangles. Without computers. I remember my Industrial Engineering curriculum had 2 subjects dedicated to drawing, where we learned to create impossible intersections using the dihedral system.
Back in 2010, I started this web to share my robotics interests and concerns, initially named “Die Bot Reise” and hosted on blogspot.com. Why this old name? “Die Bot Reise” was a kind of play on words in German, meaning “The Robotic Journey”. The name was given because I began the blog by writing about robotics.
Besides electronics, I love travelling, living abroad, experiencing new cultures and meeting people. I also write on my travel blog, where I share reports and commentary about my travels and living experiences, along with some tips and tricks.
In 2018, I relaunched this website as “MisCircuitos.com” introducing a new structure and design. I also removed and clean many old posts as I aim to refocus this website primarily on microelectronics and analog IC design.
I began this web by documenting the development of a 3kg sumo robot I created for the National Spanish Liga in 2009 and 2010. This includes discussions on topics such as how to make the best wheels, how to control the H-Bridge, etc. In 2012, my focus shifted to multicopters, culminating in the design, construction, and programming of a hexacopter. I.e. how to drive a brushless motor, radio, etc. This work was a significant component of my Industrial Engineering Diploma thesis in 2012, which was about multicopter technology.
Then, during my masters in Austria, I continued sharing valuable information about embedded systems, FPGAs or the beast Vivado. Moreover, I’ve been updating content about Arduino, Bluetooth and plotting real-time data. During that time I was envolved in a project related to track and plot the body-muscle tension wirelessly in real-time.
But from now on, MisCircuitos.com is going to focus on microelectronics, analog circuit design, Cadence and other relevant related topics.
For more details, you can see my current CV online.
Do not hesitate to contact me for questions, suggestions or any other concern: