Hodges was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for innovative contributions to integrated circuit design techniques and their application to data and signal processing.
In 1970 he joined the faculty in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, where he has served as professor, department chair, and dean.
The MOS mixed-signal integrated circuit, which combines analog and digital signal processing on a single chip, was developed by Hodges with Paul R. Gray at UC Berkeley in the early 1970s.
[1] The silicon-gate CMOS (complementary MOS) PCM codec-filter chip, developed by Hodges and W.C. Black in 1980, has since been the industry standard for digital telephony.
He received the 1999 ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award,[2] 1997 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal,[3] and, with Robert W. Brodersen and Paul R. Gray, the 1983 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award for pioneering work on switched capacitor circuits.