NOTES
The username/password to get access to these notes will be handed out at the beginning of the semester.
CAVEAT: Changes are planned to the material and notes for Fall 2008.
CAVEAT: These handouts do not necessarily cover all the material of the course. Make sure to complement them with your own class notes. Also, please inform the instructor of any errors you find in the notes.
- Reading assignments
(pdf)
New version posted 2008-09-28 Introduction
- Course Introduction
(pdf)
New version posted 2008-09-03 Noise & Distortion
- Noise Concept Definition Notes (pdf)
- Noise & Distortion Notes (pdf)
- Noise &
Distortion Summary (pdf)
REVISED posted 2008-09-28 LNAs
- LNA Intro & Specs (pdf)
REVISED posted 2008-09-28 - LNA
Input Matching Alternatives (pdf)
NEW posted 2008-09-28 - Ind. Degenerated
Common Source LNAs (pdf)
REVISED posted 2008-09-28 - Gain Programming,
Differential LNAs, Noise Canceling LNAs (pdf)
NEW posted 2008-10-06 Impedance Matching
- Simple LC Matching Networks
(pdf)
Mixers
- Mixer animation (ppt) (pdf)
- Mixer references (pdf)
- Mixers I (pdf)
REVISED and NEW posted 2008-10-14 - Mixers II (pdf)
REVISED posted 2008-10-14 - Distortion in
transistor ckts (pdf)
NEW posted 2008-11-09 Integrated Passives
- Integrated Passives -- part I (pdf)
- Integrated Passives -- part II (pdf)
VCOs
- VCO design (AACD99 slides)(pdf)
- VCO design (AACD99 paper)(pdf)
- VCO design -- part I (pdf)
- VCO design -- part II (pdf)
- VCO design -- part III (pdf)
- VCO design -- part IV (pdf)
PLLs
- PLLs for
frequency synthesis (pdf)
NEW posted 2008-11-16 Frequency Dividers
- Frequency Dividers (pdf)
Quadrature Generation
- Quadrature Generation (pdf)
Systems/Architectures
- Systems/Architectures (pdf)
- Systems/Architectures (extra I) (pdf)
- Systems/Architectures (extra II) (pdf)
- Systems/Architectures
(complex signal processing) (pdf)
NEW posted 2008-12-08
Reading Assignments
LINKS
IC packaging
- See chapter 4 of the Intel Packaging Handbook
- See AN1205 from the National Semiconductors Packaging Application Notes.
- Amkor's Advanced Package glossary