in electrical engineering and mathematics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in 1966, his M.S.
[2] 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 CMOS radio design, and computer-aided design tools.
[2] Brodersen was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for pioneering contributions to very-large-scale integrated circuit design and to speech-processing technology.
Baker Prize Paper Award,[4] 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",[5] 1997 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award for "contributions to the design of integrated circuits for signal processing systems",[6] 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.