Rui Seara e Márcio Cherem Schneider

received the BEngr and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, in 1975 and 1980. In 1984 he received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, for a dissertation on bipolar transistor modeling. In 1976, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at UFSC, where he is now a Professor. In 1995, he spent a one-year sabbatical at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). In 1997 and 2001, he worked as a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has ongoing research programs in the areas of analog integrated circuits, low-voltage/low-power circuits, and MOS transistor compact modeling which have resulted in more than 150 publications in international conferences and journals. His current research interests are mainly focused on transistor modeling and transistor-level design, in particular of analog and RF circuits.