ECTS - RF Microelectronics
RF Microelectronics (EE433) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| RF Microelectronics | EE433 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| EE 310 and EE 316 |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | N/A |
| Course Level | Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Demonstration, Experiment, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Problem Solving, Project Design/Management. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | To provide basic skills to analyze and design of RF integrated circuits. To provide an understanding the architecture and circuit level issues with respect to monolithic implementation in VLSI technologies. To give an understanding about RF microelectronic design, particularly bipolar and CMOS design. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | RF Design Basics. Review of modulation and multiple access techniques, Transceiver architectures and design considerations. LNA and Mixer design, monolithic implementation of oscillators, frequency synthesizers and power amplifiers |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to RF and Wireless Technology. Design bottleneck, analog and digital systems, choice of technology. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 2 | Basic Concepts of RF Design. Nonlinearity and time variance, intersymbol interference, random processes, noise, sensitivity and dynamic range. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 3 | Basic Concepts of RF Design. Nonlinearity and time variance, intersymbol interference, random processes, noise, sensitivity and dynamic range. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 4 | Modulation and Detection. Analog modulation, digital modulation, power efficiency of modulation schemes. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 5 | Multiple Access Techniques in Wireless Standards. Mobile RF communications, multiple access technique, wireless standards. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 6 | Transceiver Architectures. Receiver architectures, transmitter architectures, transceiver performance tests. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 7 | Transceiver Architectures. Receiver architectures, transceiver performance tests. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 8 | Low-Noise Amplifiers, bipolar and CMOS LNAs. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 9 | Mixers, down conversion mixers, bipolar and CMOS mixers. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 10 | Oscillators, basic LC oscillator topologies, Voltage-Controlled oscillators, phase noise, monolithic inductors, resonatorless VCOs, Quadrature signal generation. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 11 | Frequency Synthesizers. Phase-Locked Loops, RF synthesizer architectures, Frequency dividers. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 12 | Frequency Synthesizers. Phase-Locked Loops, RF synthesizer architectures, Frequency dividers. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 13 | Power Amplifiers. Classification of power amplifiers, High-Efficiency power amplifiers, Large-Signal impedance matching, Linearization techniques. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 14 | Power Amplifiers. Classification of power amplifiers, High-Efficiency power amplifiers, Large-Signal impedance matching, Linearization techniques | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
| 15 | Final examination period | Review of topics |
| 16 | Final examination period | Review of topics |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. B. Razavi, RF Microelectronics, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2011. |
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| Other Sources | 2. T. H. Lee, The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Cambridge University Press, 2003. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | 1 | 20 |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 2 | 40 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 40 |
| Toplam | 4 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 60 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 40 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Ability to apply knowledge on Mathematics, Science and Engineering to advanced systems. | X | ||||
| 2 | Implementing long-term research and development studies in the major fields of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. | X | ||||
| 3 | Ability to use modern engineering tools, techniques and facilities in design and other engineering applications. | X | ||||
| 4 | Graduating researchers active on innovation and entrepreneurship. | |||||
| 5 | Ability to report and present research results effectively. | |||||
| 6 | Increasing the performance on accessing information resources and on following recent developments in science and technology. | |||||
| 7 | An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. | |||||
| 8 | Increasing the performance on effective communications in both Turkish and English. | |||||
| 9 | Increasing the performance on project management. | |||||
| 10 | Ability to work successfully at project teams in interdisciplinary fields. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 2 | 14 | 28 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload | 126 | ||