E8 242o Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Systems 3:1 (August 2022)

Course Instructor: K. J. Vinoy, ECE

Course description: This is a course on high frequency circuits and systems with applications to wireless systems.

Syllabus
Fundamentals: Review of Transmission line Theory, Impedance transformation, Terminated transmission lines; Smith chart, impedance matching; Board level Planar (Microstrip and Coplanar waveguide) implementations, Introduction to Maxwell Eqn, Wave eqn, Wave propagation; types; Introduction to Waveguides, Modes of propagation, substrate integrated waveguides.

Microwave network analysis, ABCD-, S-, X-parameters; Conformal analysis of planar transmission lines; Even/Odd Mode analysis for Passive RF components and circuits;

Passive Components: Power dividers; Couplers; Resonators at RF/microwaves; Image parameter and insertion loss methods, Transmission line implementations; Low pass filters, Bandpass and band stop filter; Theory of Periodic Structures, Microwave filters with Periodic structures; Microwave metamaterials, CRLH Transmission lines; Applications.

Antennas: Introduction, definitions and basic principles of Microwave antennas, Design of typical antennas for Wireless systems; Antenna applications of metamaterials; Antennas arrays; Design of planar antennas.

Active Circuits: Diode based RF circuits: diplexers, varactors; biasing; Circuits for RF energy harvesting; Basics of high frequency amplifier design, biasing techniques, simultaneous tuning of 2 port circuits; Noise in RF Circuits; designs based on impedance match noise performance; LNA Design; Analysis of non-linearities in RF devices; Amplifier Design using S-parameters of devices: LNA Design, Power amplifier design.

Textbooks / References

  1. D.M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, John Wiley
  2. DM Pozar, Microwave and RF Wireless Systems, Artech House
  3. R.E. Collin Foundations for Microwave Engineering, John Wiley
  4. MNO Sadiku, Elements of Electromagnetics 3rd Ed., Oxford Univ. Press
  5. C.A. Balanis, Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, John Wiley
  6. Journal/Magazine Articles

Prerequisites: None

Grading:

  • Multiple Quiz: 40%
  • Design and analysis exercises using commercial tools: 30%
  • Final project: 30%