Dr. Piguet received his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, respectively in 1974 and 1981.

He joined the Centre Electronique Horloger S.A., Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1974. He worked on CMOS digital integrated circuits for the watch industry, low-power embedded microprocessors and CAD tools based on a gate matrix approach. Dr. Piguet is now Head of the Ultra-Low-Power Sector at the CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique S.A), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

He is presently involved in design and management of low power and high speed integrated circuits in CMOS technology. His main interests include design of very low-power microprocessors, low-power standard cell libraries, gated clock and low-power techniques as well as asynchronous design.

He is Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, he also lectures in VLSI and microprocessor design at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, as well as other postgraduate courses in low-power design.