WIRELESS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

Topics covered include system architectures for modern wireless transceivers and transistor-level design considerations for circuit building blocks (low noise amplifier, mixer, power amplifier, etc.) in a wireless transceiver. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ELEC 514 . Recommended Prerequisite(s): Equivalent Courses with the Key Concepts: • Transistor-level CMOS analog circuits (basic configurations, small-signal models, parasitic effects) • Frequency response of transistor-level CMOS circuits (pole/zero calculations) • Frequency response of simple passive networks (1st order and 2nd order RLC networks)• Noise analysis of transistor-level CMOS circuits (noise sources in CMOS transistors, input-referred voltage/current noise for CMOS transistor-level circuits)