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.
[3] While attending Caltech, Trimberger joined the Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS) project with principal investigator Gene Shoemaker, operated by Eleanor "Glo" Helin.
During this time, he wrote An Introduction to CAD for VLSI,[4] collecting and explaining the fundamental algorithms and techniques used in the early days of the CAE industry.
In the early 1990s, he edited and co-wrote Field-Programmable Gate Array Technology,[8] introducing the first generation of academic researchers to the industrial side of programmable-logic architecture, tools and design.
[citation needed] He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012[11] for his contributions to circuits, architectures and software technology for field-programmable gate arrays.