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ECE525 Course Syllabus: RF Intgrted Circuits Design

This document outlines the syllabus for the ECE525 RF Integrated Circuits Design course. The course will cover essential analysis techniques for nonlinear effects and noises in RF IC design. Key topics include distortion behaviors, noise effects, and RF devices and circuits. The course meets once per week and includes problem sets, a midterm exam, and a final exam. Grading is based on homework, a midterm, and a final exam. Prerequisites are ECE 312 and 425. The instructor is Prof. Yang Xu and meetings will take place on Thursday evenings in room SB-113.

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ECE525 Course Syllabus: RF Intgrted Circuits Design

This document outlines the syllabus for the ECE525 RF Integrated Circuits Design course. The course will cover essential analysis techniques for nonlinear effects and noises in RF IC design. Key topics include distortion behaviors, noise effects, and RF devices and circuits. The course meets once per week and includes problem sets, a midterm exam, and a final exam. Grading is based on homework, a midterm, and a final exam. Prerequisites are ECE 312 and 425. The instructor is Prof. Yang Xu and meetings will take place on Thursday evenings in room SB-113.

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ECE525 Course Syllabus

RF INTGRTED CIRCUITS DESIGN


ECE 312, Senior or Graduate Student Standing

Course Description: Essentials of analysis techniques for nonlinear effects and noises in
contemporary RF integrated circuit design. Nonlinear and distortion behaviors including inter-
modulation, cross-modulation, harmonics, gain compression, desensitization, spurious, etc. Noise
effects including thermal, short, Flicker, burst noises, etc. RF IC devices and circuits including
resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, BJTs, FETs, low-noise amplifiers, mixers, power
amplifiers, etc. Analysis skills for single-stage and multiple-stage networks.


Lecturers: Prof. Yang Xu ([email protected])
Phone: 312-567-8813
Office: SH 134
Class Meet: 6:25pm -9:05pm R
Class Room: SB-113
Office hour: 3:00-4:30pm R

Grader: Qiuyao Zhu ([email protected])

Textbook
Required
Razavi, Behzad. RF Microelectronics. Second Edition Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,
2011. ISBN: 978-0-13-713473-1-.
Additional References (Not required, but helpful)
Lee, Thomas H. The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Second Edition.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0521835399.

Course Format
There will be one 2.5 hours lectures per week. Problem sets (4 total) will be given out every two
to three weeks. One quiz will be given after session 1, mid-term exam is given on session 8, final
exam/project is given on session 16.
Grades

Grading table
ACTIVITIES PERCENTAGES
Quiz 10%
Homework 40%
Mid-term 20%
Final exam 30%

Prerequisites
312 and 425 (analog IC design and signal processing or equivalent)

Resources/Policies
Students are encouraged to discuss the assignments but should work independently on the write-
ups of homework.


Class Calendar

Lec # Date Topics
1 8/28 Introduction and RF systems Basics & Quiz
2 9/4 RF systems Basics (cont.)
3 9/11 Modulation, Detection and Multiple Access Techniques
4 9/18 RF Receiver Architecture
5 9/25 RF Transmitter Architecture
6 10/2 Impedance Matching and S-parameter
7 10/9 RF Passive Components
8 10/16 Mid-term exam
9 10/23 Noise Modeling in Amplifiers
10 10/30 Low Noise Amplifier
11 11/6 Mixer and Recent Design Techniques
12 11/13 Voltage Controlled Oscillators
13 11/20 Phase-Locked Loops
14 11/27 Thanksgiving Break
15 12/4 Power Amplifiers
16 12/11 7:30-9:30pm (same classroom) Final Exam

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