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Patrick Little serves as vice president of worldwide sales at Xilinx. In this role, Little oversees Worldwide Sales operations and services which includes Xilinx field sales personnel, independent manufacturing representatives, and distributors. Prior to this role, Little served as vice president of the Xilinx CPLD division, overseeing all aspects of CPLD product design, operations, product planning and software processes.
Little has over 15 years of operating experience in the semiconductor and consumer industries and was most recently president and CEO of Believe, Inc., a computer graphics IC company he founded with the top-ranked venture firm, Crosspoint Venture Partners. Prior to Believe, he was executive vice president of sales and marketing at Rendition, Inc., a graphics IC company acquired by Micron Technology, Inc. Little has also served as general manager of the consumer audio division at Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., and has held various management positions at Trident Microsystems, Inc., and Opti, Inc. He began his career in 1987 as a hardware design engineer at Wyse Technology, Inc.
Little holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University and completed postgraduate work in finance and marketing at the University of California, Berkeley. | 