NOTES
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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)
- Rohde & Schwartz
App. Note "dB or not dB?" (pdf)
New Introduction
- Course Introduction
(pdf)
Noise & Distortion
- Noise Concept Definition Notes (pdf)
- Noise & Distortion Notes (pdf)
- Distortion (addenda) (pdf)
New - Noise &
Distortion Summary (pdf)
LNAs
- LNA Intro & Specs (pdf)
- LNA Input Matching Alternatives (pdf)
- Ind. Degenerated Common Source LNAs (pdf)
- Gain Programming, Differential LNAs, Noise Canceling LNAs (pdf)
- Various definitions of "Gain" (pdf)
Impedance Matching
- Simple LC Matching Networks
(pdf)
Mixers
- Mixer animation (ppt) (pdf)
- Mixer references (pdf)
- Mixers I (pdf)
- Mixers II (pdf)
- Distortion in
transistor ckts (pdf)
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)
- Transistor Level PLL design (ISSCC10 Tutorial
Slides) (pdf)
Frequency Dividers
- Frequency Dividers (pdf)
Quadrature Generation
- Quadrature Generation (pdf)
Systems/Architectures
- Systems/Architectures
(pdf)
- Systems/Architectures (complex signal processing) (pdf)
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