Arnold (Arnie) Berger, Ph.D.

Preferred name: Arnie

Associate Professor

Arnold (Arnie) Berger, Ph.D.

Preferred name: Arnie

Associate Professor

Dr. Arnold Berger has a Ph.D. from Cornell University and has 20+ years of industrial experience ranging from hardware design engineer to director of Research and Development (R&D) at several companies including Hewlett-Packard, Advanced Micro Devices, and Applied Microsystems. He is a former chair of the Department of Engineering & Mathematics and chaired the faculty committee that created the BSEE degree at UW Bothell. Dr. Berger has published over 60 papers, holds four patents and authored three textbooks on computer architecture, embedded systems design, and debugging real-time systems. He is a senior member of IEEE.


Education

  • Cornell University
    • Ph.D. – Materials Science
    • B.S. – Materials Science

Courses

  • B EE 215 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
  • B EE 271 Digital Circuits and Systems
  • B EE 425 Microprocessor System Design
  • B EE 526 Topics in Advanced Embedded Systems

Teaching Interests

Basic circuit design and analysis, computer architecture, digital electronics, microprocessors and embedded systems, debugging as an engineering discipline

Research and Scholarship Interests

Debugging and performance issues in embedded and real-time computer systems, hardware acceleration using FPGAs

Creative Interests

Electronics, woodworking