Professor Brodersen received his Bachelor of Surgery in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in 1966, his Master of Surgery in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972.
After working with Texas Instruments, 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 radio systems, multiple-carrier multiple-antenna algorithms, microwave Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor radio design, and Computer-Aided Design tools. He retired in 2006 as Professor Emeritus. In 1999 he received a Technologie Doctor Honoris Causa from Lund University in Sweden.
He has received numerous awards, including the 1980 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award, with Paul R. Gray and David A. Hodges the 1983 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award for "pioneering contributions and leadership in research on switched-capacitor circuits for analog-digital conversion and filtering", 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Solid-State Circuits Award for "contributions to the design of integrated circuits for signal processing systems", 1998 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMOBILE Computing Award for his work on the InfoPad project (1992-1997), and 2000 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Millennium Meda
Professor Brodersen is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow.
