Patrice received the ENSEIRB engineer diploma in 1989 and the Ph. D. Degree in Instrumentation and Measurement from the University of Bordeaux, France, in 1992.

After having worked during 3 years for Sema Group Telecom group, he has joined in 1995 the IMS Laboratory of Microelectronics of Bordeaux. He is currently associate Professor at the ENSEIRB School of Electrical Engineering.

He’s teaching Embedded System conception, Networks and System on Chip. His main research activities include System on Chip design for Video Compression and for Sensor Networks.

He currently promotes Free Software and Opencores use in Embedded Systems.