RF IC Design (January 2025)

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  • Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits
  • Semester Offered: 2nd semester
  • Course Credit: Lecture: 3 units

Catalog Description

EE229: Introduction to RF and wireless technology. Characteristics of passive devices at RF. High-frequency amplifier design. Analysis of distortion in amplifiers. Low-noise amplifiers and mixers. Oscillators. Frequency synthesizers. Power amplifiers. Phased-locked loops. Modulators and demodulators. Transceiver architectures. Prereq: EE 220. 3 u.

Course Information

  • Instructor: Louis P. Alarcon (louis.alarcon@eee...)
  • Schedule: Tuesdays, 7am - 10am
  • Venue: EEEI 120 and via Zoom
    • Zoom link
    • Meeting ID: 955 0973 0919
    • Passcode: 14953304

Announcements

  • 1/21: Welcome to EE229! This class will be broadcast via Zoom and is available to all Philippine companies and universities as part of the CIDR program.
  • 1/21: Our first lecture will be on 1/28. Zoom details to follow.
  • 1/21: Here is the Zoom link.
  • 2/13: Activity 1 is now available (Due Friday, 2/21, 5pm)
    • Submit your Google Colab (Jupyter Notebook) *.ipynb file here.
    • Please name your file LastName_FirstName_EE229_Activity01.ipynb.
  • 3/02: Activity 2 is now available (Due Friday, 3/14, 5pm)
    • Submit your Google Colab (Jupyter Notebook) *.ipynb file here.
    • Please name your file LastName_FirstName_EE229_Activity02.ipynb.
  • 3/24: Due to the impending transport strike, our class on Tue, 3/25, will be via Zoom.
  • 3/24: Update: Due to a last-minute scheduling conflict, our class on Tue, 3/25 is cancelled. Apologies for the very short notice.
  • 3/31: No class on Tue, 4/01 (Eidul-Fitar).
  • 4/21: Due to unavoidable issues, our class on Tue, 4/22, will be via Zoom.
  • 5/20: We will start our class today at 8:30am. Sorry for the late notice.
  • 5/26: Our make-up class on Tue, 5/27, will be via Zoom.

Class Schedule

Week Date Topic Resources
Basic Concepts in RF Design
1 1/28
  • Introduction to EE229
    • Challenges in RF Design
    • The Big Picture
    • General Considerations
2 2/4
  • Two-Port Networks
  • Passive Matching Networks (1)
3 2/11
  • Passive Matching Networks (2)
  • Nonlinearity
  • Lecture 3 (pdf, video)
  • Example: Nonlinearity warm-up
    • Download and/or make a copy, then feel free to edit and experiment!
  • Notes:
    • Nonlinearity
      • You don't have to do the activities here but you can use them for practice. We will have a new set of activities.
4 2/18
  • Nonlinearity Metrics
2/25 No Class (EDSA Revolution Anniversary)
5 3/4
  • Noise in RF Circuits
  • Resistor Noise
6 3/11, 3/18
  • Noise in RF Circuits
  • Diode and Transistor Noise
  • Noise Analysis
  • Sensitivity and Dynamic Range
Communication Concepts
7 4/08
  • Modulation
    • Analog Modulation
    • Digital Modulation
  • Multiple Access Techniques
    • Time and Frequency Division Multiplexing
    • CDMA
  • Transceiver Architectures
    • Heterodyne Receivers
    • Direct-Conversion Receivers
    • Image-Reject Receivers
    • Direct Conversion Transmitters
4/15 No Class (Lenten Break)
RF Circuits
8 4/22
  • S-Parameters
  • Low Noise Amplifiers
    • Input Matching
    • LNA Topologies
  • Lecture 10 (unfortunately, both slide and video files have been corrupted due to erroneous file synchronization)
  • Lecture 11 (pdf, video)
9 4/29
  • Mixers
    • Passive Downconversion Mixers
    • Active Downconversion Mixers
10 5/06
  • Oscillators
    • Cross-Coupled Oscillators
    • Voltage-Controlled Oscillators
11 5/13
  • Phase-Locked Loops
    • Type-I and Type-II PLLs
    • PFD/CP Nonidealities
12 5/20
  • Power Amplifiers
    • PA Classes
    • High-Efficiency PAs
    • Cascode Output Stages
    • Linearization
Transceiver Design Example
13 TBA
  • Transceiver Design Example (1)
    • System-Level Considerations
    • Receiver Design
    • Transmitter Design
    • Synthesizer Design

Textbook

  • Behzad Razavi, RF Microelectronics (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall Press, 2011, USA.

References

Important Dates

From the UP Diliman Academic Calendar for AY 2024-2025

  • Start of classes: January 20, 2025
  • Mid-Semester: March 18, 2025
  • Dropping deadline: April 24, 2025
  • Lenten break: April 14-19, 2025
  • LOA deadline: May 7, 2025
  • End of classes: May 22, 2025
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