ECE 69500 - Primer on RF Design

Note:

This is a 5-week course offered through Professional Engineering Online and on campus for WL students only.

Course Details

Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 1

Areas of Specialization:

  • Fields and Optics

Counts as:

Experimental Course Offered:

Spring 2019

Requisites:

ECE 31100 or equivalent

Requisites by Topic:

Undergraduate-level electromagnetics

Catalog Description:

This course covers the fundamentals of RF design. It is designed as a first course for students or engineers with limited background in high-frequency electronics. By the end of this class students will be able to understand basic system-level concepts for transmitters, receivers and antennas. They will also be exposed to critical design tools such as the Smith Chart and associated software. Fundamental high-frequency effects, transmission lines, and the scattering parameters are also included.

Required Text(s):

  1. Microwave and RF Design: A Systems Approach , 2nd Edition , SciTech Publishing , 2013 , ISBN No. 978-1-61353-021-4

Recommended Text(s):

  1. F Microelectronics , 2nd Edition , B. Razavi , Prentice-Hall , 2011 , ISBN No. 978- 0137134731
  2. Microwave Engineering , 4th Edition , D. M. Pozar , Wiley , 2011 , ISBN No. 978-0470631553

Lecture Outline:

Week Topic
1 Introductory remarks Ultimate RF receiver RF bands Power, voltage, frequency measured in the dB scale Modulation fundamentals Multiplexing techniques Transceiver critical parameters
2 Transmission lines Line with mismatched load Line with mismatched source and load Time-domain response Physical transmission lines
3 The Smith Chart Impedance and admittance charts Matching networks: lumped-elements and distributed solutions
4 Lumped elements in Radio Frequencies Inductors, capacitors, resistors Antennas and RF Links Antenna fundamentals RF link budgets
5 Scattering Parameters Fundamentals Power considerations Other Matrices Impedance, admittance, ABCD, and others EXAM