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
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):
- Microwave and RF Design: A Systems Approach , 2nd Edition , SciTech Publishing , 2013 , ISBN No. 978-1-61353-021-4
Recommended Text(s):
- F Microelectronics , 2nd Edition , B. Razavi , Prentice-Hall , 2011 , ISBN No. 978- 0137134731
- Microwave Engineering , 4th Edition , D. M. Pozar , Wiley , 2011 , ISBN No. 978-0470631553
Lecture Outline:
Week | Topic |
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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 |