Marcel Tromp

Vice President, Hardware Engineering

Marcel Tromp joined Magnum in July 2007 with the acquisition of the Consumer Products Group from LSI Corporation. He has over a decade of experience in defining, architecting, and managing complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. While developing consumer media processing solutions, he has guided hardware, software and systems design from concept to mass production.

As a Fellow at LSI Tromp was responsible for architecture and technology development, as well as for managing patent and standards activities for the Consumer Products Group. Prior to LSI, Tromp was vice president of engineering at Pixelworks, where he was responsible for media processor design and DTV processor system architecture. He was chief architect and later vice president of engineering at Equator Technologies, where he was responsible for all hardware, software, and systems design as well as operations. He also served as chief architect at TriMedia Technologies and held various senior engineering positions at Philips Semiconductors and Philips Research.

Tromp holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.