EECS 217
Microwave Circuits

Instructor: Ali M. Niknejad
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Luiz Franca-Neto

Description: Techniques of analog circuit technology in the high-frequency regime above 1 GHz. Transmission lines and distributed circuit elements; S-parameter design of high-frequency active circuits; computer-aided analysis and design. Emphasis on design of planar high-frequency integrated circuits employing CMOS and SiGe technology. Circuit building blocks for broadband wired and wireless communication will be emphasized including oscillators, low-noise amplifiers, and power amplifiers.

Course Information: Syllabus: PDF html

Software:

• Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS)
(tutorial written by Sasidar Vaja and Scarlet Halabi)
• AWR Microwave Office
• ADS Help
• Guide to installing/running ADS

Lectures:

• Lecture 1: Introduction to Microwave Circuits
• Lecture 2: Poynting's Thm/Impedance and Conductors
• Lecture 3: Distributed Circuits
• Lecture 4: Distributed Resonators
• Lecture 5: The Smith Chart
• Lecture 5 Handout [1][2]
• Lecture 6: Microwave Networks
• Lecture 7: Properties of N-Ports
• Lecture 8: Matching Netowrks (Review)
• Lecture 9: Distributed/Lumped Impedance Matching (Pozar p. 222-250)
• Lecture 10: Distributed Impedance Matching (Pozar p. 250-263) (updated 2/27)
• Lecture 11: Properties of 3/4 Ports (see end of lecture 10 for transformer material) (Pozar 309-315)
• Lecture 12: Power Dividers/Couplers (Pozar 315-323,333-336)
• Lecture 13: Coupled Line Couplers, 180 Hybrid (Pozar 337-364)
• Lecture 14: Microwave Filters (Pozar)
• Lecture 15: Microwave Filters (Pozar)
• Lecture 16: Properties of Two-Ports (modified on 4/4)
• Lecture 17: Passivity and Stability of Two-Ports
• Lecture 18: Two-Port Power Gain
• Lecture 19: Mason's U Function/Examples (updated 4/11)
• Lecture 20: Noise in Two-Ports (for a review of noise, see EECS 142 lectures 10-12)
• Lecture 21: FET Noise and Equivalent Circuits [14]
• Lecture 22: Si Microwave Amplifier Survey [4]-[10]
• Lecture 23: Balanced/Distributed Amplifiers [11]
• Lecture 24: Broadband Amps/Shunt Feedback [12][13]
• Lecture 25: Oscillators #1 (Dr. Franca-Neto)
• Lecture 26: Oscillators #2 (Dr. Franca-Neto)
• Lecture 27: Passive Mixers [15]
• Lecture 28: Active Mixers

References

1. L.M. Franca-Neto, B. A. Bloechel and K. Soumyanath, "17GHz and 24GHz LNA Designs based on Extended-S-parameter with Microstrip-on-Die in 0.18µm Logic CMOS Technology," , 2003 ESSCIRC.
2. L. M. Franca-Neo, R. E. Bishop, B. A. Bloechel, "64GHz and 100GHz VCOs in 90nm CMOS Using Optimum Pumping Method," ISSCC 2004.
3. M. S. Gupta, "Power Gain in Feedback Amplifiers, a Classic Revisited," IEEE Trans. of MTT, vol. 40, May 1992.
4. D. Shaeffer and T. H Lee, "A 1.5-V, 1.5-Ghz CMOS Low Noise Amplifier," IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 32, May 1997.
5. D. Cassan and J. Long, "A 1V 0.9 dB NF Low Noise Amplifier for 5-6 GHz WLAN in 0.18 um CMOS," IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, March 2003.
6. X. Guan and A. Hajimiri, "A 24 GHz CMOS Front-End," IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, Feb. 2004.
7. C. Kienmayer, R. Thuringer, M. Tiebout, W. Simburger, and A. Scholtz, "An Integrated 17 GHz Front-End for ISM/WLAN Applications in 0.13 um CMOS," VLSI 2004.
8. F. Ellinger, "26-42 GHz SOI CMOS LNA", IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, March 2004.
9. S. Reynolds, B. Floyd, U. Pfeiffer, T. Zwick, "60 GHz Transceiver Circuits in SiGe Bipolar Technology," ISSCC 2004.
10. C. H. Doan, S. Emami, A. M. Niknejad, and R. W. Brodersen, "Design of CMOS for 60GHz Applications", ISSCC 2004.
11. J. Beyer, S.N. Prasad, R. C. Becker, J. E. Nordman, G. K. Hohenwarter, "MESFET Distributed Amplifier Design Guidelines," IEEE Trans. of MTT, vol. MTT-32, March 1984.
12. A. Bevilacqua and A. M. Niknejad, "An Ultra Wideband CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for 3.1-10.6 GHz Wireless Receivers", ISSCC 2004.
13. F. Bruccoleri, E.A.M. Klumperink, B. Nauta, "Noise Cancelling in Wideband CMOS LNAs," ISSCC 2002.
14. Y. Tsividis, Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor, Oxford University Press, Copyright 1999.
15. S. Maas, Microwave Mixers, Artech House Books, 1992.