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Latest revision as of 20:26, 4 October 2020

  • Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits
  • Semester Offered: 1st semester
  • Course Credit: Lecture: 3 units

Catalog Description

Introduction to RF and wireless technology. Characteristics of passive devices at RF. High-frequency amplifier design. Analysis of distortion in amplifiers. Low-noise amplifiers and mixers. Oscillators. Frequency synthesizers. Power amplifiers. Phased-locked loops. Modulators and demodulators. Transceiver architectures. Prereq: EE 220. 3 u.

Syllabus

Module Topics Outcomes Resources Activities
Basic Concepts in RF Design
1

Introduction to EE 229

  • Challenges in RF Design
  • The Big Picture
  • General Considerations
  • (Ch. 1, 2.1.1 - 2.1.2)

Passive Matching Networks

  • (Ch. 2.5)
  • Appreciate the importance of various disciplines to RF IC Design.
  • Identify the key drivers and trade-offs in RF Design.
  • Analyze and design passive impedance matching circuits.
2

Nonlinearity

  • Distortion
  • Intermodulation
  • (Ch. 2.1.3, 2.2)

Noise in RF Circuits

Sensitivity and Dynamic Range

  • (Ch. 2.4)
  • Determine and measure the effects of device nonlinearity on circuit performance.
  • Analyze the effects and understand the implications of electronic noise in integrated circuits.
  • Arizona State University Predictive Technology Models (PTM) website
Communication Concepts
3

Modulation

  • Analog Modulation
  • Digital Modulation

Multiple Access Techniques

  • Time and Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • CDMA

Examples of Wireless Standards

  • Understand the interdependence and implications of the transceiver topology and architecture to the design of RF circuits.
4

Transceiver Architectures

  • Heterodyne Receivers
  • Direct-Conversion Receivers
5

Transceiver Architectures

  • Image-Reject Receivers
  • Direct Conversion Transmitters
RF Circuits
6

Low Noise Amplifiers

  • Input Matching
  • LNA Topologies
7

Mixers

  • Passive Downconversion Mixers
8

Mixers

  • Active Downconversion Mixers
9

Oscillators

  • Cross-Coupled Oscillators
  • Voltage-Controlled Oscillators
10

Phase-Locked Loops

  • Type-I and Type-II PLLs
  • PFD/CP Nonidealities
11

Power Amplifiers

  • PA Classes
  • High-Efficiency PAs
  • Cascode Output Stages
  • Linearization
Transceiver Design Example
12

Transceiver Design Example

  • System-Level Considerations
  • Receiver Design
13

Transceiver Design Example

  • Transmitter Design
  • Synthesizer Design

Textbook

Behzad Razavi, RF Microelectronics (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall Press, 2011, USA.