1/21
 Lecture 1: Introduction to Communication Systems

 
1/26
 Lecture 2: IC Technology Review for RF Applications G&M Ch. 1-2
1/28
 Lecture 3: Complex Modulation; Receiver Architectures (updated 2/5)  
2/2

Lecture 4: Receiver Architectures (cont)

  
2/4
 Lecture 5: Scattering Parameters  
2/9
 ISSCC  
2/11
 ISSCC  
2/16 Holiday  
2/18 Lecture 6: Two-Port Gain & Stability  
2/23

Lecture 7: Amp Design for Power Gain

Simple Design Example

  
2/25
 Lecture 8: Two-Port Noise  
3/2
 Lecture 9: Wideband Amplifiers  
3/4

Lecture 10a: LNA Design

Lecture 10b: Review of Memoryless Non-Linearity

Schaeffer/Lee

Nguyen et al.
3/9
 Lecture 11: Volterra Series Analysis
3/11
 Lecture 12: High Frequency BJT Distortion  
3/16
 Lecture 13: MOS Distortion  
3/18
 Lecure 14: MOS Distortion (cont)  
3/23 Spring Recess  
3/25
 Spring Recess  
3/30

Lecture 15: Power Amplifiers

  
4/1

Lecture 16: Digitally-Assisted RF (EECS Colloquium, Bogdan Staszewski)

  
4/6

Lecture 17: The ABC's of PAs

Project Midterm Report Due

  
4/8
 Lecture 18: Efficient Switching PAs  
4/13
 Lecture 19: Power Combining  
4/15
 Lecture 20: Fundamental of Mixers; Active Current Commutating Mixers  
4/20

Lecture 21: Mixer Noise and Design

  
4/22
 Lecture 22: Introduction to Phase Noise  
4/27
 Lecture 23: Phase Noise; Jitter (Dr. Aleks Tasic)  
4/29
 Lecture 24: Discrete Time Transceiver Architectures (Renaldi Winoto)  
5/4
 Lecture 25: MEMS/XTAL Osc  
5/6 Lecture 26: Frequency Synthesis (Integer-N/Franctiona-N) (lect1, lect2, lect3) Slides by Dr. Perrott, MIT Open Courseware
5/11
 Lecture 27: Injection Locking; Quadrature VCOs  
5/18
 Project Due (8pm)