Founder and President of the Trimberger Family Foundation

Dr. Steve Trimberger is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the IEEE, and recipient of the 2018 IEEE Don Pederson Award for outstanding contributions to solid state circuits. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the National Space Society, and Board of Directors of both the SETI Institute and Teachers in Space.

From 1988 until 2017, Dr. Trimberger was employed at Xilinx where he touched every aspect of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology, including EDA software and architecture definition of the XC4000X. He designed the first FPGA serdes I/O logic. He designed the bitstream security functions in the Xilinx Virtex and subsequent families of FPGAs. His group developed the first die-stacked 3D FPGA prototype and supply chain at Xilinx, ushering in the era of “chiplets.” A named inventor on approximately 250 US patents, his innovations appear today in nearly all commercial FPGA devices.

After retiring from Xilinx, Dr. Trimberger served as Program Manager in the Microelectronics Technology Office at DARPA, where he led activities in high-performance semiconductor technology and systems. He is currently Professor of Practice at the University of Florida.

In recognition of his early work at Caltech searching for near-Earth asteroids, asteroid 2990 is named “Trimberger.”

Dr. Trimberger is founder and president of the Trimberger Family Foundation, a non-profit organization with charitable programs in several areas.