Syllabus
On-chip RF passive components, resonant circuits, matching circuits. Noise – source, modelling, noise figure, noise temperature, noise figure of cascaded systems. Linearity – HD, IMD, IP2, IP3. ACLR, AACLR. Basics of wireless communication. LNA design, Input matching for power, input matching for noise. Advanced LNA circuits. Mixer topologies – active and passive. Receiver architectures. Voltage controlled oscillator topologies – theory and design, phase noise. Phase locked loops (PLL) – theory, design of individual elements and the complete system. Power amplifier classes and topologies – theory and design. Transmitter and receiver architectures..
Text Books
Same as Reference
References
1. RF Microelectronics, Behzad Razavi, Pearson.
2. The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Thomas H. Lee, Cambridge.