Had 115c in Spring of 2012.

GREAT professor. Class was 8am and he was very understanding about it. Podcasted and slides. Homework was a little hard to get started on but the TA (Vikrant, who isnt at UCLA anymore) was ridiculously helpful. The professor is helpful at OH as well. At the end the HW wasnt bad at all - if you get stuck go to OH.

Exams were very similar to the HW. If you actually did the HW then the exams shouldnt be anything to stress about (can have slides during exams too).

The project was really easy but i think it's because the TA made it so. The TA also help extra OH in the computer labs so he helped a bunch of people through it too. It was a group project (2 people).

If you can, take him.

I had Pamarti for 110 in Fall 2009 and 115C in Winter 2011. He has changed a lot since then. He obviously doesn't care about his students and he makes it so obvious. His attitude is just terrible - incredibly condescending and a general feeling of "I can't believe I have to teach you idiots." The first few homeworks were marathon style, full of typos that made problems impossible. He also changed parameters on the homework arbitrarily, long after they were assigned.

Grading was very unfair on the midterm - Pamarti graded it, not the TA. I had points docked for putting down that the parasitic delay of an inverter is 1 (and the definition too!) with big red question "WHY???". Apparently he wanted to see that 0.4/0.4 = 1 or some other crap like that. Somehow, plugging numbers into the equation after writing it down shows that you understand it from first principles, but skipping the 0.4/0.4 calculation means that you are just plugging and chugging along.

When I took 110 with him, I felt that he was distant but very fair and an excellent teacher, and that he cared about us getting an intuition for circuits. He doesn't care anymore, and his arrogance is inappropriate - I have never felt this from much more distinguished professors. If you can, avoid him.