RF and Microwave Circuit Design
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RF and Microwave Circuit Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for RF and Microwave Circuit Design (subject code 3710514) as prescribed for EACE · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 50 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3710514)Unit 1 Transmission Line & Waveguides
- Lumped element circuit model for transmission line
- field analysis
- quarter wave transformer
- generator and load mismatch
- Smith chart: fundamentals and problem solution
- impedance matching, and tuning
- Waveguides: Rectangular & Circular
Unit 2 Microwave Network Analysis
- Impedance and equivalent voltage and current
- Impedance and admittance matrix
- High frequency parameters
- Formulation of S parameters
- Properties of S parameters
- scattering matrix
- transmission matrix
- Reciprocal and Lossless networks
- Signal flow graph
Unit 3 RF MATCHING NETWORKS & RF CIRCUIT DESIGN
- Introduction to component basics
- capacitor and inductor
- Applications of RF
- Impedance matching networks
- Frequency response
- T and Π matching networks
- Micro-stripline matching networks
- Amplifier power relation
- Stability considerations
- Single stage transistor amplifier Design
- Low noise amplifier design
- Broadband transistor amplifier design
- Mixers and filter design
Unit 4 Microwave Semiconductor Devices And Modeling
- PIN diode
- Tunnel diodes
- Varactor diode
- Schottky diode
- IMPATT and TRAPATT devices
- transferred electron devices
- Microwave BJTs
- GaAs FETs
- low noise and References: D.M.Pozar
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- 2009. R.Ludwig and P.Bretchko
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- “Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear And Non Linear Techniques”
- John Wiley 1990. S.Y
- “Microwave circuit Analysis and Amplifier Design”
- Prentice Hall 1987. Radmanesh
- “RF and Microwave Electronics Illustrated”
- Pearson Education