Radio frequency circuits design techniques

EE-426 / 4 credits

Teacher: Ruffieux David

Language: English

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
  • Courses: 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
  • Courses: 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
  • Courses: 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
  • Courses: 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
  • Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: optional

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