Description
The course covers the design and analysis of radio frequency integrated circuits at the transistor level using CMOS and bipolar technologies. It focuses on system-level trade-offs in transceiver design, practical RF circuit techniques, and physical understanding of device parasitics. Models for active devices, passive components and interconnect parasitics are examined. The course also covers concepts in wireless system design and their impact on design trade-offs in different transceiver architectures. RF transistor models, passive matching networks, noise analysis and low-noise amplifier design are studied. The effects of nonlinearity are treated along with mixer design techniques and practical bias circuits. The importance of phase noise and VCO design will be considered.
