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Steve Trimberger's Biography

Steve Trimberger received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology at the dawn of the VLSI era, working with Carver Mead and Ivan Sutherland at Caltech, and Lynn Conway and Doug Fairbairn at Xerox PARC.

Dr. Trimberger was a member of the original Design Technology group at VLSI Technology. He joined Xilinx in 1988 and was a member of the architecture definition group for the Xilinx XC4000 FPGA and the technical leader for the XC4000 design automation software. He led the architecture definition group for the Xilinx XC4000X device families. He led the Xilinx Advanced Development group for many years and is currently Fellow in Xilinx Research Labs in San Jose. His research interests include reconfigurable computing and cryptography.

Dr. 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. He is an inventor on more than two hundred patents in the fields of integrated circuit design, FPGA and ASIC architecture, CAE and cryptography. He is a four-time winner of the Freeman Award, Xilinx’s annual award for technical innovation. He has served as Design Methods Chair for the Design Automation Conference, Program Chair and General Chair for the ACM/SIGDA FPGA Symposium and on the technical programs of numerous Workshops and Symposia. Dr. Trimberger is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).