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High Speed Communication Circuits

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Communication Systems Overview
  • Transceiver Architectures
  • Wave Guides and Transmission Lines
  • S-Parameters and Impedance Transformers
  • Generalized Reflection Coefficient, Smith Chart
  • MOS Transistors, Passive Components, Gain-Bandwidth Issue for Broadband Amplifiers
  • High Frequency, Broadband Amplifiers
  • Broadband Amplifiers (cont.)
  • Enhancement Techniques for Broadband Amplifiers, Narrowband Amplifiers
  • Noise Modeling in Amplifiers
  • Noise Figure, Impact of Amplifier Nonlinearities
  • Low Noise Amplifiers
  • LNA Design Examples and Recent Techniques
  • Voltage Controlled Oscillators
  • VCO Examples and Mixers
  • Mixers (cont.)
  • Noise in Voltage Controlled Oscillators
  • ABC’s of Power Amplifiers
  • Other Classes of Power Amplifiers, Modulation of Power Amplifiers
  • Linearization Techniques for Power Amplifiers, Adaptive Biasing
  • Overview of Phase-Locked Loops and Integer-N Frequency Synthesizers
  • Noise in Integer-N and Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers
  • Design of Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers and Bandwidth Extension Techniques
  • Advanced RF Topics
  • RF Transceiver Design Example (Guest Lecture)

Readings

  • Razavi, Behzad. RF Microelectronics _._ Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. ISBN: 0138875715.
    Required
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