RF Electronics - ELEC4604

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prereq: ELEC3106
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Review of transceiver architectures. RF basics: transmission lines. Smith charts. S-parameters. RF active/passive devices and parasitics. Linearity and noise. Impedance matching. RF filters: design and implementation of microstripline filters, Kuroda identities. LNA: circuit architectures, impedance, noise, bandwidth, power gain. Mixers: active/passive mixer architectures, isolation, linearity, conversion gain. Oscillators: architecture, voltage controlled oscillators and tunability, phase noise. Phase-locked loops: analysis and dynamics of PLL, charge pump, frequency synthesiser. Power amplifiers: class C,E, F, efficiency.