| eASIC Corporation, a provider of ASIC devices, announced that Patrick Little, 45, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer. Little joins eASIC from Xilinx, where he served as Senior Vice President of Products and Market Development. Prior to Xilinx, he served as CEO of Believe, as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Rendition, as General Manager of the consumer audio division at Diamond Multimedia Systems, and has held various management positions at Trident Microsystems, and Opti, Little began his career as a systems architect and design engineer at Wyse Technology. He succeeds Ronnie Vasishta, who remains as President and will assume the additional responsibility of Chief Operation Officer (COO). |