Unit 1 Introduction to RF Design and Wireless Technology

4 lecture hours

• Design andApplications
• complexity and choice of Technology
• Basic concepts in RFDesign: Nonlinearity and Time variance
• Inter- symbol Interference
• random process and noise
• sensitivity and dynamic range
• conversion of gain and distortion

Unit 2 RF Modulation

8 lecture hours

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

Unit 3 RF Testing

• RF Testing for heterodyne
• Image reject
• Direct IF and subsampled receivers. 4 10

Unit 4 BJT and MOSFET behavior at RF Frequencies

12 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

17 lecture hours

• Overview of RF Filter Design
• Active RF Component sand 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 side band generators
• Radio frequency Synthesizers-PLLS
• Various RF synthesizers architectures and frequency dividers
• power amplifier design
• liberalization techniques
• Design issues in integrated RF Filters