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