Radio Frequency Engineering ECE6207 (1st Year MSc Program)

Chapter 1: PLANAR TRANSMISSION LINES AND COMPONENTS

1.1 Review of Transmission line theory
1.1.1 S parameters 1.1.2 Transmission line equations 1.1.3 Reflection coefficient 1.1.4 VSWR
1.2 Microstrip lines: 1.2.1 Structure, waves in microstrip, 1.2.2 Quasi-TEM approximation,
1.2.3 Coupled lines 1.2.4 Microstrip discontinuities and components
1.3. Strip line 1.4 Slot line
1.5 Coplanar waveguide
1.6 Filters
1.7 Power dividers
1.8 Couplers 

Chapter 2: IMPEDANCE MATCHING NETWORKS 

 2.1 Circuit Representation of two port RF/Microwave Networks:
2.1.1 Low Frequency Parameters 2.1.2 High Frequency Parameters  2.1.3 Transmission Matrix,
2.2 ZY Smith Chart
2.2.1 Design of Matching Circuits using Lumped Elements 2.2.2 Matching Network Design using Distributed Elements 

Chapter 3: BASICS OF RADIO FREQUENCY SYSTEM DESIGN

3.1 Definitions and models of Linear systems and Non-linear system. Specification parameters:
3.1.1 Gain, 3.1.2 noise figure 3.1.3 SNR, Characteristic impedance  3.1.4 S-parameters
3.1.5 Impedance matching and Decibels
3.2 Elements of digital base band signaling: complex envelope of band pass signals
3.2.1 Average value, 3.2.2 RMS value, 3.2.3 Crest factor, 3.2.4 Sampling,
3.2.5 jitter, 3.2.6 modulation techniques, 3.2.7 filters, 3.2.8 pulse shaping, 3.2.9 BER,
3.2.10 sensitivity, 3.2.11 selectivity, 3.2.12 dynamic range
3.2.13 Adjacent and alternate channel power leakages. 

Chapter 4: RADIO ARCHITECTURES AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 

4.1 Superheterodyne architecture,
4.2 direct conversion architecture,
4.3 Low IF architecture,
4.4 Band-pass sampling radio architecture. 

Chapter 5: AMPLIFIER MODELING AND ANALYSIS

 5.1 Noise equivalent model for Radio frequency device, 5.1.1 amplifier noise model,
5.1.2 cascade performance, 5.1.3 minimum detectable signal, 5.1.4 Performance of noisy systems in cascade. 5.2 Non-Linearity:
5.2.1 Amplifier power transfer curve, 5.2.2 gain compression, AM-AM, AM-PM, 5.2.3 polynomial approximations, 

5.2.4 Saleh model, 5.2.5 Wiener model and Hammerstein model,
5.3 intermodulation, Single and two tone analyses,
5.4 second and third order distortions and measurements, 5.5 Cascade performance of nonlinear systems. 

Chapter 6: MIXER AND OSCILLATOR MODELING AND ANALYSIS

 6.1 Mixers:
6.1.1 Frequency translation mechanisms, 6.1.2 frequency inversion,
6.1.3 image frequencies, 6.1.4 spurious calculations,
6.1.5 Principles of mixer realizations. 6.2 Oscillators:
6.2.1 phase noise and its effects,
6.2.2 effects of Oscillator, 6.2.3 spurious components, 6.2.4 frequency accuracy, 

6.2.5 oscillator realizations 6.3 Frequency synthesizers 

Chapter 7: APPLICATIONS OF SYSTEMS DESIGN 

 7.1 Multimode and multiband Superheterodyne transceiver: 7.1.1 selection of frequency plan,
7.1.2 receiver system and transmitter system design
7.2 Direct conversion transceiver: 

7.2.1 Receiver system and transmitter system design. 

Chapter 8:MICROWAVE IC DESIGN AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES 

8.1 Microwave Integrated Circuits
8.1.1 MIC Materials 8.1.2 Hybrid versus Monolithic MICs
8.2 Multichip Module Technology –
8.2.1 Fabrication Techniques, Miniaturization techniques, 8.2.2 Test fixture measurements, 

8.2.3 probe station measurements, 8.2.4 thermal and cryogenic measurements 

8.3 Experimental field probing techniques. 

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1.Gu, Qizheng, (2005) RF system design of transceivers for wireless communications New York : Springer, c2005 ISBN: 0387241612, 0387241620, 9780387241616
2.B. Razavi, RF Microelectronics, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2012
3.RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications. Ulrich L. Rohde, David P. Newkirk Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 

4.Foundations for radio frequency engineering / by Wen Geyi (Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China).
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