RFIC Design

3 Units

This course covers fundamentals of the RF integrated circuit design used in radio transceivers. After brief system-level discussion and introduction of basic concepts in RF design, the course focuses on various building blocks used in radio transceiver with emphasis on main blocks used in receivers and frequency generation units such as the low noise amplifier (LNA), mixers, voltage controlled oscillators (VCO), power amplifiers (PA), and phase-locked loops (PLL). Important practical topics such as impedance matching and RF behavior of on-chip passive devices will be covered as well. Prereq: ECSE 426 .