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Stephen Trimberger
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Known forField-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology
AwardsNAE Member (2016)
IEEE Fellow
ACM Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science

Stephen "Steve" Trimberger (born 1955) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, philanthropist, and prolific inventor with 250 US utility patents as of August 26, 2021.[1] He is a DARPA program manager of the microsystems technology office.[2]

Education

Trimberger grew up in

University of California at Irvine
, and Ph.D. in computer science from the California Institute of Technology.

While attending Caltech, Trimberger joined the

Trimberger
."

Career

Trimberger joined VLSI Technology in 1982, where, as a member of the original Design Technology group, he developed various computer-aided design software, including interactive tools, simulation, physical design automation, and logical design automation. During this time, he wrote An Introduction to CAD for VLSI,[3] collecting and explaining the fundamental algorithms and techniques used in the early days of the CAE industry.

Since 1988, he has been employed at

FPGA), the first FPGA with dedicated arithmetic and memory.[4] At the same time, he was the technical leader for the XC4000 design automation software. He led the architecture definition group for the Xilinx XC4000X device families. He developed a time-multiplexed FPGA[5] and software[6] to map to it in the 1990s, long before Tabula commercialized the time-folded FPGA. He is an inventor with approximately thirty patents in this area. In the early 1990s, he edited and co-wrote Field-Programmable Gate Array Technology,[7]
introducing the first generation of academic researchers to the industrial side of programmable-logic architecture, tools and design.

He designed the bitstream security system for the Xilinx Virtex-II [US Patent #7,058,177], the first bitstream encryption deployed in FPGAs.[citation needed] His inventions on that security system are the basis of security in all commercial FPGAs from Xilinx and others.[citation needed] He was also instrumental in bringing 3D packaging from a lab curiosity to a product in the mid-2000s [US Patent 7,605,458]. This was deployed by Xilinx as Stacked Silicon Interconnect Technology (SSIT).[8] Trimberger led the Xilinx Advanced Development group for many years and is currently Xilinx Fellow in Xilinx Research Labs in San Jose.

Trimberger has written three books on computer-aided design for integrated circuits and FPGAs. He has written dozens of papers on design automation and FPGA architectures.[9] He is a four-time winner of the Ross Freeman Award, Xilinx’s annual award for technical innovation.[citation needed]

He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for his contributions to solid-state electronics.

References

  1. ^ Patents of Stephen M. Trimberger
  2. ^ "Dr. Stephen Trimberger".
  3. ISBN 0898382319
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  4. ^ "FPL2012". Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  5. S2CID 2122414
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  6. S2CID 15857357
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  7. ISBN 0792394194
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  8. ^ "SEMI". Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  9. ^ "Stephen Trimberger". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 26 May 2016.

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  1. ^ "2015 Hall of Fame Inductees | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine". engineering.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  2. ^ "Stephen Trimberger". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  3. ^ "IEEE Fellows Made Their Mark on Industry - IEEE - The Institute". theinstitute.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  4. ISSN 1943-0582
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  5. ^ "Dr. Stephen M. Trimberger". NAE Website. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
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