Dr. Setti received the 1998 Caianiello prize for the best Italian Ph.D. thesis on Neural Networks and he is co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE CAS Society Darlington Award (best paper award for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems) for the paper "Spectral properties of chaos-based FM signals: theory and simulation results," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I, vol. 50, n. 1, pp. 3-15, Jan. 2003, co-authored by Sergio Callegari and Riccardo Rovatti. He also recieved the Best Paper Award at the 17th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD2005), for the paper “Chaos-based High-EMC Spread-Spectrum Clock Generator,” with, L. de Michele, F. Pareschi and R. Rovatti as well as the Best Student Paper Award at the Zurich International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Zurich 2005), for the paper “A PLL–based Clock Generator with Improved EMC,” with F. Pareschi, L. de Michele, and R. Rovatti.