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RF IC LAYOUT DESIGN COURSE
The goal of course is to teach the necessary knowledge of RF integrated circuit principles analysis and design. This course covers the design and analysis of radio-frequency integrated systems at the transistor level using state-of-the-art GaAs, SiGe, HBT and CMOS technologies. It focuses on system-level trade-offs in transceiver design, practical RF circuit techniques, and physical understanding for device parasitic. Accurate models for active devices, passive components, and interconnect parasitic are critical for predicting high-frequency analog circuit behavior and will be examined in detail.
The course will start with fundamental concepts in wireless system design and their impact on design trade-offs in different transceiver architectures. Following that, RF transistor model passive matching networks will be discussed. Noise analysis and low-noise amplifier design are studied next. The effects of nonlinearity are treated along with mixer design techniques. Practical bias circuit for RF design will be illustrated. Then, the importance of will be considered power amplifier design. The course will conclude with a brief study of phase noise and VCO design.
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