Exar appointed Paul Pickering Senior Vice President of Marketing. Pickering has over 26 years of semiconductor marketing and sales experience and most recently was the Vice President of Field Operations for Innovative Silicon: Prior to Innovative Silicon, HE was executive vice-president of sales and marketing for Xpedion Design Systems, that was acquired by Agilent Technologies. Prior to Agilent, Pickering worked in senior management sales and marketing roles at Fairchild, Toshiba, LSI Logic, and PMC-Sierra.