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Webpage: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~kinget/EE6314_F06
Office Hours: Wed 2pm to 4pm or make an appointment by email
Teaching Assistant: TBD
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. See the Design Tools page for the
available remote login software.
Make sure your are confident you have a sufficiently fast internet
connection (broadband). Make sure you understand the use of remote
access tools 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. CVN might be able to offer
specific support.