Executive Vice President, General Manager of MEMS & Sensors Group, STMicroelectronics

Benedetto Vigna is Executive Vice President, General Manager of the Analog, MEMS & Sensors Group, at STMicroelectronics. He has held this position since September 2011. In 1995, Vigna joined STMicroelectronics’ R&D Labs and launched the Company’s efforts in MEMS. Six years later, he became Director of the MEMS Business Unit, responsible for design, manufacturing and marketing of ST’s MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes. In 2007, Vigna’s scope was enlarged to include management of Sensors, RF, High-Performance Analog and Mixed Signal, Interface, Audio for Portable, and General-Purpose Analog products.
Vigna has filed more than 150 patents on micromachining to date, authored numerous publications in this field, and delivered many invited speeches at international conferences. He has served as industrial consultant for the President of the Italian Scientific Research Center and sits on the industrial board of several EU-funded programs.

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  Science&Technology / 2014-10-11

  The MEMS revolution

  Benedetto Vigna / Executive Vice President, General Manager of MEMS & Sensors Group, STMicroelectronics

  MEMS are basically information sensors that transmit the information to a microcontroller that carries out the analysis. It is an essential element of the so-called smart objects, allowing them to capture information about their environmen…