Unit 1 Thomas H. Lee “Design of CMOS RF Integrated Circuits” Cambridge University Press 1998

10 lecture hours

• Content Total Hrs % Weight age 1 Introduction to RF Design and Wireless Technology: Design and Applications
• complexity and choice of Technology
• Basic concepts in RF Design: Nonlinearity and Time variance
• Inter-symbol Interference
• random process and noise
• sensitivity and dynamic range
• conversion of gain and distortion

Unit 2 RF Modulation

10 lecture hours

• Analog and Digital Modulation of RF Circuits
• comparison of various techniques for power efficiency
• Coherent and non coherent detection
• Mobile RF Communication and basics of Multiple Access techniques
• Receiver and Transmitter architectures
• Direct conversion and two-step transmitters

Unit 3 RF Testing

• RF Testing for heterodyne
• Image reject
• Direct IF and sub sampled receivers. 04 15

Unit 4 BJT and MOSFET behavior at RF Frequencies

10 lecture hours

• BJT and MOSFET behavior at RF Frequencies
• Modeling of the transistors and SPICE model
• Noise performance and limitations of devices
• integrated parasitic elements at high frequencies and their monolithic implementation

Unit 5 RF Circuit Design

14 lecture hours

• Overview of RF Filter Design
• Active RF Components and modeling
• Matching and biasing Networks
• Basic blocks in RF system and their VLSI implementation
• Low noise Amplifier Design in various mixers- working and implementation
• Oscillators- Basic topologies VCO and definition of phase noise
• Noise power and trade off
• Resonator VCO designs
• Quadrature and single sideband generators
• Radio frequency Synthesizers-PLLS
• Various RF synthesizers architectures and frequency dividers
• power amplifier design
• liberalization techniques
• Design issues in integrated RF Filters. 2
• Razavi “RF Microelectronics” PHI 1998. 3
• Jacob Baker, H
• Boyce “CMOS Circuit Design
• Layout and Simulation” PHI 1998. 4
• Tsividis “Mixed Analog and Digital Devices Technology” TMH 1996