Mobius Microsystems, a supplier of precision timing ICs, appointed two industry executives to senior positions at the company.  Joining as VP of sales is R. Scott Hills and, as VP of operations, Ed Armstrong.  Both will report to chief executive officer, Ashok Dhawan.

Ed Armstrong

Before joining Mobius, Armstrong served in that capacity at several successful semiconductor startups including Summit Microelectronics, Reflectivity, which was purchased by TI in 2006, and Arithmos, purchased by STMicroelectronics in 1999.  Armstrong's broad industry experience includes management roles in operations, process development, engineering and wafer fab management at Western Digital, Hughes Semiconductor and Intel.

Hills joins Mobius with over 24 years' experience in semiconductor sales management, most recently as VP of worldwide sales at Semicoa, a leading provider of high reliability discrete devices. His industry background includes senior sales management roles at large semiconductor companies including Dialog Semiconductor, Cirrus Logic and AMD; and at successful start-up firms including IC Media and Silicon Motion. He also served as director of North American Sales at ARC international

Mobius Microsystems' patented CMOS Harmonic Oscillator (CHO™) technology allows a new era in frequency generation, achieving unprecedented accuracy levels with CMOS-only oscillators, and matching the performance requirements of today's common high-speed interface links.  CHO technology allows today's mainstream electronics to finally be rid of the last non-CMOS component, a quartz-based resonator, and achieve the highest levels of integration.