E3 237-O Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications 3:1 (January 2023)
Course Instructor: Gaurab Banerjee, ECE
Course description: This is an advanced Integrated Circuit design course, which builds upon the fundamentals in analog VLSI circuits to design important building blocks of modern wireless communication systems such as mobile phones. This course has three hours of instruction per week and 1 lab credit equivalent to 3 hours of circuit design work per week using industry standard CAD tools.
Syllabus
System Level Concepts: Noise and Linearity. Concepts such as noise figure, 2-port noise parameters, IIP3. Cascaded noise figure and IIP3. The modeling of
an RF system using these concepts. Receiver and Transmitter Architectures.
Circuit Design: RLC Networks: L- and Pi-matches, Smith Chart and Lumped element based approaches to impedance matching, Low Noise Amplifiers: CS, CG and
cascode LNAs ,Upconversion and Downconversion Mixers, Voltage Controlled Oscillators: Commonly used VCO topologies, oscillator phase noise Basics of Phase Locked
Loops and Synthesizers, Power Amplifiers: Class A,B,C, E and F amplifier topologies, Power amplifier subsystems: EER/Envelope Tracking, Doherty and Outphasing
Amplifiers.
Case Studies: Cellular Transceiver, Wireless LAN transceiver, Millimeter-wave transceiver
Several examples in LNA, Mixer, VCO and Power Amplifier Design, integrated with the laboratory and project components of this course.
Textbooks / References
- Behzad Razavi, RF Microelectronics, Pearson Education India, 2013.
- Journal and conference papers, patents.
Prerequisites: Analog VLSI Circuits
Grading:
Grading will be on a design project of industrial relevance. The break up is as follows:
- Review 1: 10%, Basic idea and specifications.
- Paper presentation: 20%, a recent publication in the last two years from a major journal.
- Review 2: 20% mid-project presentation
- Review 3: 25%, final project presentation
- Final report: 35%, in IEEE Conference/Journal format