Design & Reuse

SiliconGate appoints ex-Chipidea exec as CEO

Peter Clarke, EETimes
(10/02/2009 12:50 PM EDT)

LONDON — SiliconGate LDA (Porto, Portugal), a developer of power management intellectual property cores for use in system-on-chip ICs, has appointed Floriberto Lima as president and chief executive officer.

Lima is 36 years old and earned a MBA degree from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 2008, and an MSc in Electronics and Systems from the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa in 2001. Between 2000 and 2007 he was responsible for the creation and development of the Chipidea's power management group. In the years 2008 to 2009, Lima was responsible for Chipidea's power management marketing.