Robert W. Brodersen is a notable professor of electrical engineering

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, now emeritus, and a founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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Prof. Brodersen received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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, in 1966, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1972. After working with Texas Instruments

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, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Berkeley in 1976, where his research focused on low power design and wireless communications, including ultra-wideband

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 radio systems, multiple-carrier multiple-antenna algorithms, microwave CMOS radio design, and Computer-Aided Design

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 tools. He retired in 2006 as Professor Emeritus.

Prof. Brodersen is a member of the National Academy of Engineering

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 and an IEEE Fellow

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. He has received numerous awards, including the 1980 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award, with Paul R. Gray and David A. Hodges

David A. Hodges

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 the 1983 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award

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 for "pioneering contributions and leadership in research on switched-capacitor circuits for analog-digital conversion and filtering", 1997 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award for "contributions to the design of integrated circuits for signal processing systems", 1998 ACM SIGMOBILE Computing Award for his work on the InfoPad project (1992-1997), and 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal. In 1999 he received a Technologie Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Lund in Sweden

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Selected works

• (ed.) Anatomy of a Silicon Compiler. (1992). Kluwer Academic Pub. ISBN 0-7923-9249-3.
• Low-power CMOS Wireless Communications: A Wideband CDMA System Design. (1998). Kluwer Academic Pub. ISBN 0-7923-8085-1. Co–authored with Samuel Sheng.
• Energy Efficient Microprocessor Design. (2002). Kluwer Academic Pub. ISBN 0-7923-7586-6. Co–authored with Thomas D. Burd.