ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
REGULATIONS - 2013
CU7202 MIC AND RF SYSTEM DESIGN SYLLABUS
CU7202 MIC AND RF SYSTEM DESIGN SYLLABUS
ME 2ND SEM ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING SYLLABUS
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1. To understand the fundamentals of RF radio system design.
2. To understand the various components that constitute an RF radio system for wireless Communications.
3. To know the basic analysis techniques needed for evaluating the performance of an RF radio system for Wireless applications.
UNIT I CMOS PHYSICS, TRANSCEIVER ECIFICATIONSAND ARCHITECTURES
CMOS: Introduction to MOSFET Physics – Noise: Thermal, shot, flicker, popcorn noise transceviver Specifications: Two port Noise theory, Noise Figure, THD, IP2, IP3,Sensitivity, SFDR, Phase noise - Specification distribution over a communication link Transceiver Architectures:
Receiver: Homodyne, Heterodyne, Image reject, Low IF Architectures – Transmitter: Direct up conversion, Two step up conversion
UNIT II IMPEDANCE MATCHING AND AMPLIFIERS
S-parameters with Smith chart – Passive IC components - Impedance matching networks Amplifiers: Common Gate, Common Source Amplifiers – OC Time constants in bandwidth estimation and enhancement – High frequency amplifier design Low Noise Amplifiers: Power match and Noise match – Single ended and Differential LNAs – Terminated with Resistors and Source Degeneration LNAs.
UNIT III FEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND POWER AMPLIFIERS
Feedback Systems: Stability of feedback systems: Gain and phase margin, Root-locus techniques – Time and Frequency domain considerations – Compensation Power Amplifiers: General model – Class A, AB, B, C, D, E and F amplifiers –Linearisation Techniques – Efficiency boosting techniques – ACPR metric – Design considerations
UNIT IV RF FILTER DESIGN, OSILLATOR, MIXER
Overview-basic resonator and filter configuration-special filter realizations-filter implementation. Basic oscillator model-high frequency oscillator configuration-basic characteristics of mixers-phase locked loops-RF directional couplers hybrid couplers-detector and demodulator circuits.
UNIT V MIC COMPONENTS, ANTENNAS AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
Introduction to MICs-Fabrication Technology, Advantages and applications, MIC components - Micro strip components, Coplanar circuits, Integrated antennas, photonic band gap antennas, Measurement techniques-test fixture measurements, probe station measurements, thermal and cryogenic measurements, experimental field probing techniques.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
To be able to design RF circuits
To be able to analyse the performance of RF circuits
REFERENCES:
1. T. Lee, ”Design of CMOS RF Integrated Circuits”, Cambridge, 2004.
2. B.Razavi, “RF Microelectronics”, Pearson Education, 1997.
3. Jan Crols, MichielSteyaert, ”CMOS Wireless Transceiver Design”, Kluwer Academic Publications, 1997.
4. B. Razavi, Design of analog CMOS Integrated Circuits”, McGraw Hill,2001.
5. I.D. Robertson &S. Lucyszyn, “RFIC and MMIC Design and Technology”, IEE Circuits, Devices and Systems series 13, London, UK, 2001.
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