NPTEL Phase II :: Electronics & Communication Engineering

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COURSE OUTLINE

This course will develop electronic circuits for radio frequency applications, specific to CMOS integrated circuits. As the course title suggests, the course will be specific to CMOS integrated circuits, and specific to radio frequencies.

In particular, the course will focus on circuits for radio front-ends for mobile phone handsets. The course will cover low noise amplifiers, mixers, power amplifiers, frequency synthesizers (and phase locked loops). The course will also cover several modern radio architectures.

COURSE DETAIL

Modules	Lectures
Module 1: Introduction	Lecture 1: RF systems – basic architectures Lecture 2: Transmission media and reflections Lecture 3: Maximum power transfer
Module 2: Passive RLC Networks	Lecture 4: Parallel RLC tank, Q Lecture 5: Series RLC networks, matching Lecture 6: Pi match, T match
Module 3: Passive IC Components	Lecture 7: Interconnects and skin effect Lecture 8: Resistors, capacitors Lecture 9: Inductors
Module 4: Review of MOS Device Physics	Lecture 10: MOS device review
Module 5: Distributed Systems	Lecture 11: Transmission lines, reflection coefficient Lecture 12: The wave equation, examples Lecture 13: Lossy transmission lines Lecture 14: Smith charts – plotting gamma
Module 6: High Frequency Amplifier Design	Lecture 15: Bandwidth estimation using open-circuit time constants Lecture 16: Bandwidth estimation using short-circuit time constants Lecture 17: Risetime, delay and bandwidth Lecture 18: Zeros to enhance bandwidth Lecture 19: Shunt-series amplifiers, tuned amplifiers Lecture 20: Cascaded amplifiers
Module 7: Noise	Lecture 21: Thermal noise, flicker noise review Lecture 22: Noise figure
Module 8: LNA Design	Lecture 23: Intrinsic MOS noise parametes Lecture 24: Power match versus noise match Lecture 25: Large signal performance, design examples & Multiplier based mixers
Module 9: Mixer Design	Lecture 26: Subsampling mixers
Module 10: RF Power Amplifiers	Lecture 27: Class A, AB, B, C amplifiers Lecture 28: Class D, E, F amplifiers Lecture 29: RF Power amplifier design examples
Module 11: Voltage controlled oscillators	Lecture 30: Resonators Lecture 31: Negative resistance oscillators
Module 12: Phase locked loops	Lecture 32: Linearized PLL models Lecture 33: Phase detectors, charge pumps Lecture 34: Loop filters, PLL design examples
Module 13: Frequency synthesis and oscillators	Lecture 35: Frequency division, integer-N synthesis Lecture 36: Fractional frequency synthesis
Module 14: Phase noise	Lecture 37: General considerations Lecture 38: Circuit examples
Module 15: Radio architectures	Lecture 39: GSM radio architectures Lecture 40: CDMA, UMTS radio architectures

PREREQUISITES

Analog integrated circuits.

REFERENCES

The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits by Thomas H. Lee. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
RF Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi. Prentice Hall, 1997.