Viola Schäffer (member IEEE) received her M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1999.  She joined Texas Instruments Incorporated (formerly Burr-Brown Corporation) in 1998 and has been working as an analog IC design engineer and manager at various locations including Tucson, Arizona, as well as Erlangen and Freising in Germany.   Currently she is the chief technologist in the Linear Amplifier organization as well as development manager for the Precision Signal Conditioning products.  She was elected TI Fellow in 2023. 

Her work focuses on precision signal conditioning including instrumentation and programmable gain amplifiers, power amplifiers, industrial drivers as well as magnetic-based current sensors and precision magnetic sensors.  She has design experience in CMOS, HV-CMOS, precision bipolar, and BCD processes.  She has led multiple technology-circuit co-developments and designed key enabling IP on these new process nodes.  She has several IEEE publications and holds 20 patents related to this work with several applications pending.  She has served on the technical program committees for ISSCC, ESSCIRC and SSCS webinars and on the ISSCC European Region Leadership Team and is currently serving as the ISSCC Analog Subcommittee Chair.