Martin IzzardMartin grew up in Durban, South Africa; he earned a BSEE and MSEE at Natal University in South Africa, and a PhD on the Physics of Thin Film Transistors for LCD Displays from Cambridge University, England (Trinity College). He was awarded a post-doctoral Research Fellowship (Title A) at Trinity College. He joined Texas Instruments VLSI Design Laboratory in 1991 where he designed their first embedded serial interface (serdes) for the Gate Array product line. He went on to manage DSP and Datacom circuits and architecture teams in the Design Laboratory in the mid-90s. In 1998 he moved to the ASIC Business Unit to manage the platform circuit design organization, later assuming a P&L Manager role for the Telecom/Datacom ASIC business. In 2001 he joined the Analog Division as a P&L Manager and in that role led TIs entry into the Optical Module chip market and started a new niche Clock IC market aimed at providing reference clocks for chips with serdes interfaces. He returned to manage the R&D Labs in 2007 and is now a Texas Instruments Vice President and Director of the Systems and Applications R&D Labs and the Kilby Labs.
Martin directs several R&D Labs developing new circuits and systems for existing and future markets. The Laboratories perform research in Communications, Medical, Video, Vision and Imaging, Audio and Voice, and System Architectures. He also has joint responsibility for the new Kilby Lab, which is testing high-risk breakthrough technologies. The Labs serve all TI product divisions.
