This program involves the study and design of microwave, radio frequency (RF), analog, mixed-signal (combined analog and digital), and digital electronic circuits and systems. Emphasis is on the development, analysis, and implementation of integrated circuits for applications such as wireless and wireline communication systems, microwave and millimeterwave communication and radar systems, and interfaces between computers and sensors. A large effort on RF MEMS (micro-electro-mechnical-systems) emphasizes RF tunable filters and reconfigurable antennas, ultra-fast and very high reliability RF MEMS devices.
Tim Gathman, Ph.D. student of Prof. James Buckwalter won the “Best Student Paper Award” at the 2012 SiRF Conference for his paper "An Integrate-and-Dump Receiver for High Dynamic Range Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion". His paper was selected from among 10 finalists.
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Prof. Paul Yu has been named 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest scientific organization. He was honored by the association for “efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.” 
Ron Reedy, an ECE alumnus (earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and applied physics in 1984) and co-founder and chief operations officer of San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor recently gave an inspirational and informative talk to students at the Jacobs School of Engineering about succeeding as an entrepreneur in the technology sector and about silicon on sapphire, the technology that made his company successful.
Ph.D. student Brian McFee and Prof. Gert Lanckriet have been awarded a "Best Presentation Award" by the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, for their paper "The Natural Language of Playlists." The paper was presented at the Society's annual flagship conference ISMIR 2011 and published in the Proceedings.
