Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design - ELEC9702

   
   
 
Course Outline: http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Excluded: ELEC9340
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


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The objective of this course is to provide postgraduate students with an advanced understanding of designing RF integrated circuits in state-of-the-art CMOS technology with the ultimate purpose of integrating the entire transceiver on an IC chip. This course will build on existing knowledge from undergraduate courses on RF electronics with presumed knowledge of transmission line theory, Smith Chart and S-parameters. Course will cover the design of fundamental RF building blocks for communication systems which includes: mixers, low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators and phase-lock loops. Noise and nonlinearity considerations in these building blocks will be treated in detail. Implications of each RF building block performance on the overall performance of an integrated communication system will be studied.