WIRELESS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

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 414 . Recommended Prerequisite(s): ELEC 305 , ELEC 342, or Equivalent Courses with the Key Concepts Listed Below • 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)