Prof. Luigi RAFFO is full professor of Electronics at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering – University of Cagliari (ITALY). He received the “laurea degree” in Electronic Engineering at University of Genoa (ITALY) in 1989, the PhD degree in Electronics and Computer Science at the same university in 1994. In 1994 he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of University of Cagliari (ITALY) as assistant professor, in 1998 as associate professor and from 2006 as full professor of electronics. He teaches courses on system/digital and analog electronic design and processor architectures for the Courses of studies in Electronic and Biomedical Engineering. From 2006 to 2012 and in 2017/18 he was President of the Course of Studies in Biomedical Engineering. From 2012 he is the Delegate for European Projects of University of Cagliari
He was coordinator of the project EU IST-248424 MADNESS – Methods for predictAble Design of heterogeNeous Embedded System with adaptivity andreliability Support. He was unit coordinator of the project ARTEMIS-ASAM. He was coordinator of the project EU IST-FET – IST-2001-39266 – BEST and  unit coordinator of the project EU-IST-FET – SHAPES – Scalable Software Hardware Architecture Platform for Embedded Systems.He was local coordinator of industrial projects in the field (among others: ST-Microelectronics –- Extension of ST200 architecture for ARM binary compatibility, ST-Microelectronics –- Network on chip). He has been responsible for cooperation programs in the field of embedded systems with several other European Universities.

His research focus is on the design of electronic devices and system for application both in the biomedical field and in several fields where high performances and low power dissipation are required. In such a field he is author of more than 250 international publications and three international patents.

He was local general coordinator of the following international projects:

FP7-AAL-2012-5-064-HEREiAM:An interoperable platform for self care, social networking and managing of daily activities at h

FP7-ICT-248424 – MADNESS: Methods for predictAble Design of heterogeNeous Embedded System with adaptivity and reliability Supp

FP5-IST-39266 – BEST:Biomolecular recognition by integrated smart-sensor technology

 He was local coordinator of the following international projects:

H2020-ICT-01-2016 – Cross-layer modEl-based fRamework for multi-oBjective dEsign of Reconfigurable systems in unceRtain hybRid envirOnments

FP7-ICT-611687 NEBIAS:NEurocontrolled BIdirectional Artificial upper limb and hand prosthesiS

FP7-ARTEMIS-ASAM – Automatic Architecture Synthesis and Application Mapping

FP6-FET-026825 SHAPES Scalable software Hardware Architecture Platform for Embedded Systems

For UniCA he coordinated several national projects (PRIN), regional (LR7), industrial (among others: ST-Microelectronics –- Extension of ST200 architecture for ARM binary compatibility, ST-Microelectronics –- Network on chip). He was coordinator of the project INSIEME: INtelligent Systems for Integrated hEalth ManagEment” – Asse I, Azione 1.1.3 PON Imprese e competitività 2014 – 2020.

Last Update: February 1st, 2026