RF Engineering I
(3-0-0-3)
CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.
EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.
Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.
Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Threads / ECE Electives
Course Coordinator: Gabriel A Rincon-Mora
Prerequisites: ECE 3025 [min C] and (ECE 3050 [min D] or ECE 3400 [min D])
Catalog Description
Fundamentals of RF engineering. Components at high frequencies, device modeling, amplifiers, lumped-element and microstrip impedance transformation networks, S-parameter-based design of RF and microwave amplifiers.Course Outcomes
Design matching networks using the Smith chart
Model transistors for small-signal operation
Analyze noise contribution from components
Design, simulate, fabricate and test a multi-stage LNA
Design, simulate, fabricate and test a double-balanced mixer
Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)
N/A
Topic List
- Introduction
- Analog vs. RF Engineering
- Systems and Circuits
- High Frequency Measurements
- Circuit Fundamentals
- Sources and Available Power
- Balanced (Differential) vs. Unbalanced (Single-ended) Networks
- Y, Z, ABCD, and s-parameter Two-Ports
- Transmission Line Analysis using the Smith Chart
- L/C/T Lossless Matching Network Design
- Losses, Resonant Circuits, and Bandwidth
- Practical Limitations of Lumped Element Components
- Planar Transmission Lines and their Limitations
- Resonant Circuits and Quality Factor (Q)
- Bandwidth and Attenuation
- Resistive Attenuators and their Uses
- Practical Lumped-Element Filter Design
- Low-Pass and High-Pass Filters
- Bandpass Filters
- Notch Filters
- Active Device Modeling
- Hybrid-Pi model at High Frequencies
- Package Models
- s-parameter Models
- Amplifier Fundamentals
- Amplifier Topologies
- S-parameter Design of RF Amplifiers
- Gain and Stability Circles
- Power Gain
- Maximum Stable Gain
- Noise Analysis
- Noise Mechanisms in Devices
- Noise Factor and Noise Figure
- Noise Models for Active Devices
- Multi-stage (Cascaded) LNA Design
- Mixers and Frequency Conversion
- Ideal Frequency Conversion
- Shottky Diodes and Nonlinear Models
- Linear, Time-varying (Switching) Models for Mixers
- RF Transformers
- Practical Mixer Design