Stephen M. Trimberger, Donald O. Pederson Award

3. Who is Who?

4. Who said this?
“My most significant contribution to engineering is
the cohort of graduate students I’ve advised over
the years,” Allstot said of the 40 Ph.D. and 65
master’s graduates he’s mentored. “Early on, I try to
understand what their dreams are, and then we work
very hard as a team to achieve them.”
“It was one of the great pleasures of my life to have been a
doctoral student of Charles A. Desoer. Fortunately for me
Charles wanted to learn about network synthesis, which was
the topic I wanted to pursue for my doctorate, having taken
courses on the topic under Professors David F. Tuttle at
Stanford and Hendryk J. Oorthuys at Purdue. Since Charles
had just come from Bell Laboratories he was aware of the
papers by Brockway McMillan on n-port synthesis so we met
once a week to go through McMillan’s papers, from which I
learned of Charles’ scholarly approach to a new topic.”
“I was most impressed by his rare sense concerning the
direction of research where significant findings lie. It makes
me proud whenever I tell my students that I was one of the
students of Professor Desoer.”
"University is a life-changing experience"
"All faculty members have one mission: To
educate students"
"Professor is how I define myself"

5. Both known for FPGA
S. M. Trimberger, ed., Field-
Programmable Gate Array Technology,
Springer, 2012.
S. M. Trimberger,
Introduction to CAD for
VLSI, Springer, 2013.

6. The following people received this award as
the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-
State Circuits:
2020: Klaas Bult
2019: Laurence W. Nagel
2018: William S. Carter
2018: Stephen M. Trimberger
2017: Takao Nishitani
2017: John S. Thompson
2016: Miles A. Copeland
2015: Robert Whitlock Adams
2014: Robert G. Meyer
2013: Anantha P. Chandrakasan
2012: Behzad Razavi
2011: Willy Sansen
2010: Takayasu Sakurai
2009: Teresa H. Meng
2008: Asad A. Abidi
2007: Hugo De Man
2006: Mark A. Horowitz
The following people received this award as
the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award:
2005: Bruce A. Wooley
2004: Eric A. Vittoz
2003: Daniel W. Dobberpuhl
2002: Ping-Keung Ko
2002: Chenming Calvin Hu
2001: No Award
2000: Hung-Fai (Stephen) Law
2000: Robert H. Krambeck
1999: Kensall D. Wise
1998: Nicky C. Lu
1997: Robert W. Brodersen
1996: Rudy J. van de Plassche
1995: Lewis M. Terman
1994: Paul R. Gray
1993: Kiyoo Itoh
1992: Barrie Gilbert
1991: Frank Wanlass
1990: Toshiaki Masuhara
1989: James D. Meindl