Robert W. Brodersen

Robert W. Brodersen (November 1, 1945 – February 1, 2024) was a professor emeritus of electrical engineering, and a founder of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Brodersen received his B.S. in electrical engineering and mathematics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in 1966, his M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1968, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1972.

He received numerous awards, including the 1980 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award, with Paul R. Gray and David A. Hodges the 1983 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award 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 in Sweden. In 2016, Brodersen was awarded the IEEE Edison Medal.

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.