Robert W. Brodersen (born November 1, 1945) is a professor of electrical engineering, now emeritus, and a founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) at the
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Brodersen received his B.S. in electrical engineering and mathematics from
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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, in 1966, his M.S. in electrical engineering from
MIT
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in 1968, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from
MIT
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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 tools. He retired in 2006 as professor emeritus.
Brodersen was elected a member of the
National Academy of Engineering
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in 1988 for pioneering contributions to very-large-scale integrated circuit design and to speech-processing technology. He is also an
IEEE Fellow
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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
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
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, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Sweden. In 2016, Brodersen was awarded the
IEEE Edison Medal
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Selected works
*(ed.) ''Anatomy of a Silicon Compiler''. (1992). Kluwer Academic Pub. .
*''Low-power CMOS Wireless Communications: A Wideband CDMA System Design''. (1998). Kluwer Academic Pub. . Co–authored with Samuel Sheng.
* ''Energy Efficient Microprocessor Design''. (2002). Kluwer Academic Pub. . Co–authored with Thomas D. Burd.