Advanced Communications Circuits EE6314
Fall 2011
Peter Kinget

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Webpage: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~kinget/EE6314_F09

Office Hours: Mon 2.30pm-3.30pm or by appointment.

Teaching Assistant: Kshitij Yadav (ky2181 at columbia.edu)

Prerequisite:

• ELEN E4314 and E6312.
• Qualified student must have a very good understanding of circuit analysis, electronics, electronic devices and models, and analog circuit design.
• Students need to be familiar with circuit simulation (Spectre) and CAD tools (Cadence design environment).
• This class will cover advanced topics in RF integrated circuit design. This class should NOT be your first design class.
• If you have not taken the pre-requisite courses, but think that you have sufficient experience, you need to contact me before you enroll. Pre-requisites will be checked at the beginning of the term.

Course Topics (subject to change)

• 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.
• An extensive design project is an integral part of the course.

see also this overview of the book chapters in the textbook.

Design tools

Computer-aided analysis techniques are extensively used. The latest industry-grade CAD tools and simulation tools are used in this class. See the Design Tools page.

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.

Check the Textbook section for a list of other RFIC related textbooks which have been placed on reserve in the library for this course.

Grading:
 (Subject to change)
 Homeworks  15%
 Design Project  30%
 Midterm (written) 20%
 Final (written) 35%

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