Radio frequency circuits design techniques
Summary
RF has changed our daily life in our ever connected wireless world (guess how many radios you have in your smartphone?). The goal of this course is to get familiar with RF design techniques in view of understanding the basics behind wireless communication.
Content
This course will teach you basic concepts of RF circuit design.
We will investigate the following items:
Passives and resonant circuits
Impedance matching
HF filters
Noise and Distorsion
S-Parameters
LNA and mixers
Oscillators
Power amplifiers
Transceiver Architectures
Keywords
Radio-Frequency, Wireless communication, IoT, Bluetooth, WIFI, Radar, Receiver, Transmitter
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
Electronics
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Analyze the building blocks of RF transceivers
- Categorize RF applications
- Design basic RF building blocks
- Sketch a system overview of any wireless TRX
Teaching methods
ex cathedra, hands-on and exercise depending on the subject
Expected student activities
Students could run examples on their own PC using LTSpice
Analyse and present a scientific paper to the course audience
Assessment methods
written exam
Supervision
| Office hours | No |
| Assistants | No |
| Forum | No |
Resources
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
No
Notes/Handbook
Lecture notes will be available in PDF on Moodle.
You might be interested in:
RF Microelectronics from Behzad Razavi (Second Edition), Pearson
This is an excellent reference textbook with many examples and it will be available in .pdf at the library.
Alternatively:
The Design of CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits from Thomas Lee, Cambridge Uni Press
Moodle Link
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Radio frequency circuits design techniques
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Radio frequency circuits design techniques
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Radio frequency circuits design techniques
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Radio frequency circuits design techniques
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Radio frequency circuits design techniques
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional