Primary Job Title Co-Founder and CTO Primary Organization 
Altair Semiconductor
Location Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Male
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With more than twenty years' experience, Yigal Bitran is a world expert in communications, signal processing, silicon, hardware and software.
As Vice President of R&D at Libit Signal Processing, Yigal established Libit's R&D group and was pivotal in developing Libit's core technologies. Following Libit's acquisition
by Texas Instruments, Yigal served as CTO of its broadband communications group in Israel - developing multiple broadband technologies including Cable Modems, WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet.
Prior to joining Libit, Yigal was a research scientist and team leader at an elite R&D unit of the Israeli Defense Forces, where he was awarded the prestigious Innovative Thinking Award.
Yigal developed several broadband modem technologies from scratch, along with over twenty broadband mixed-signal silicon products. He has authored 20+ patents and published numerous papers in a broad range of scientific and technical publications.
Yigal holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University and Executive MBA from the Kellogg-Recanati Program.
