Email: -- Put EE6314 in the subject of your message
Webpage: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~kinget/EE6314_F05
Office Hours: (prelim.)Tuesdays 2.30pm to 4.30pm or make an appointment by email
Teaching Assistant: Anuranjan Jha (anu at
cisl.columbia.edu ) (TA webpage)
Prerequisite:
Course Topics (tentative list)
- The course will focus on the design of RF front-ends for integrated transceivers for wireless communications.
- Overview of wireless communication systems.
- Receiver architectures.
- Transmitter architectures.
- Noise, sensitivity; Nonlinearity and distortion; Dynamic range.
- Low-noise amplifiers.
- Mixers.
- Oscillators, phase-locked loops and frequency synthesizers.
see also this overview of the book chapters in the textbook.
Design tools
Computer-aided analysis techniques are extensively used. An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.
Textbook:
The course is based on a combination of instructor's notes, technical papers and textbook chapters.
The textbook we will use most is:
B. Razavi: "RF Microelectronics" , Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1998.
see also this overview of the book chapters in the textbook.
We will often refer to the following textbook as well:
T. Lee: "The design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits" , 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Grading:
Homeworks/Design Project 35%
Midterm (written) 25%
Final (written) 40%
Remote Students
Remote students need the ability to remotely run
the design tools on our VLSI/CISL Teaching machines in Mudd 12th
floor. This involves setting up an ssh connection to the machines and
running an Xserver on your system. Instructions are at http://www.ee.columbia.edu/systems/x11.html
Make sure your are confident you have a sufficiently fast internet
connection (broadband). Make sure you understand the use of ssh & X11
before you register for this course as a remote student. We will not be able to help you setting
up that connection since it is too specific to your particular computing
setup and internet connection.