RF Integrated Circuit Design

Graduate

Design of RF integrated circuits for communications systems, matching networks, low noise amplifiers (LNAs), mixers, tuned amplifiers, oscillator design, phase locked loops (PLLs), frequency synthesizers, RF power amplifiers, coupling networks. (3 lecture hours a week.) (Credit cannot be obtained for both ELEC- 8640 and it if offered under ELEC-8900 as a Special Topics course.)