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RF Circuit Design Course Overview

This document provides information about the RF Circuit Design course offered at the university. The 4 credit course is an elective with prerequisites in electronic circuits. It includes 3 contact hours of theory per week. The course aims to provide understanding of radio frequency fundamentals, exposure to emerging wireless systems, knowledge of wireless system blocks and how they work, and skills for designing RF circuits. The syllabus covers introduction to RF systems, communication circuits, RF CMOS modeling, and RF circuit design. Recommended textbooks are also listed.

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RF Circuit Design Course Overview

This document provides information about the RF Circuit Design course offered at the university. The 4 credit course is an elective with prerequisites in electronic circuits. It includes 3 contact hours of theory per week. The course aims to provide understanding of radio frequency fundamentals, exposure to emerging wireless systems, knowledge of wireless system blocks and how they work, and skills for designing RF circuits. The syllabus covers introduction to RF systems, communication circuits, RF CMOS modeling, and RF circuit design. Recommended textbooks are also listed.

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Effective From: 2020-21

RF Circuit Design
Course No : ELE4110
Credits : 4
Course Category : Departmental Elective
Pre-requisite(s) : ELC2140 (Electronic Circuits)
Contact Hours (L-T-P) : 3-1-0
Type of Course : Theory

Course Outcomes
1. Independently understand radio frequency (RF) fundamental
2. Get an exposure to emerging wireless systems;
3. Know the various blocks of wireless systems and how do they work;
4. Identify the low power CMOS devices and their model requirements for RF circuit
5. Developed specialized skill required for design for RF circuits.

Syllabus
Unit I: Introduction of RF System
Overview of RF/wireless Systems and Their Standards; Transmitter and Receiver Architectures;
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) System and Its Applications; Wireless LAN; Wireless
PANs; UWB; WiMAX; Basic Concepts of Blue Tooth and Software Defined Radio.

Unit II: Communication Circuits


Integrated Circuit Requirements for Modern RF/wireless System; RF Circuits – Low-Noise
Amplifier (LNA) and Power Amplifier (PA), Oscillators, Mixers; Base Band Circuits-
Modulators; Demodulators; Integration Issues of RF and Base Band Circuits.

Unit III: RF CMOS Modeling


Device Options and Requirements for Modern Wireless System; Low Frequency (LF) vs Radio
Frequency (RF) model; RF Model Development; Equivalent Circuit Model Representation;
Parameter Evaluation; Model Verification; Figure-of-Merits (FoMs).

Unit IV: RF Circuit Design


Design – Goals and Objectives; Design specifications; Design Issues and Approach; Circuit
Design of Front-End Blocks of Wireless System; Performance Assessments.

Books:
1. T.H. Lee, The Design of CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits, Cambridge University Press,
2004.
2. T. Ytterdal, Y. Chang and T.A. Fjeldly, Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design,
Wiley, 2013.
3. Ulrich L. Rohde and Mathias Rudolph, RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications,
2005.
4. Kai Chang, Inder Bahal and Vijay Nair, RF and Microwave Circuit and Component Design for
Wireless System, Wiley, 2002.
5. B. Razavi, RF Microelectronics, 2nd edition Prentice Hall, 2012.
J. H. Reed, Software Radio: A Modern Approach to Radio Engineering, Pearson, 2004.

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