EEE628 SPECIAL TOPICS IN RF/MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN AND MICROELECTRONICS
| Course Code: | 3560628 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Electrical And Electronics Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Masters |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
• Core RF/Microwave principles. including noise and nonlinearity. with ties to analogRFIC design and microwave theory.
• Transceiver architectures such as heterodyne. sliding-IF. direct-conversion. image-reject.
and low-IF topologies.
• Low-noise amplifiers. including cascode common-gate and common-source topologies.
noise-cancelling schemes. and reactance-cancelling configurations
• Passive and active mixers. including their gain and noise analysis and new mixer
topologies
• Voltage-controlled oscillators. phase noise mechanisms. and various VCO topologies
dealing with noise-power. tuning trade-offs
• Coverage of passive devices. such as integrated inductors. MOS varactors. and
transformers
• Power amplifier principles and circuit topologies along with transmitter architectures.
such as polar modulation and out-phasing
• A transceiver design example with system level considerations