EECS 217 Prof. A. Niknejad
Course
Syllabus
Course: Microwave Circuits
Instructor: Prof. Ali Niknejad, 572 Cory Hall, 2-0459, niknejad@eecs
Guest Insturctor: Dr. Luiz Franca-Neto
Class Schedule: TuTh 11:00-12:30 PM, 293 Cory Hall
Office Hours: MTh 10-11 or by appointment (email)
Grading Policy: Homework 20%
Midterm 20%
Project 30%
Final 30%
Prerequisites: EECS 117 and 140 or equivalent. EECS 242 provides a helpful background although we will review most of the needed material for this course.
Project: Design and simulation of a microwave circuit block meeting given specification.
Tools: ADS, SpectreRF, Matlab/Mathematica
Textbook:
Microwave
Engineering, David Pozar, 2nd ed.
Wiley 1998.
References:
Ramo, Whinnery, Van Duzer, Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, Wiley 1984
R. E. Collin, Foundations for Microwave Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1966
G. Gonzalez, Microwave Transistor Amplifiers, Prentice-Hall, 1984
T.C. Edwards, Foundations for Microstrip Circuit Design, Wiley 1981
G. D. Vendelin, Design of Amplifiers and Oscillators by the S-Parameter Method, Wiley-Interscience, 1982.
Vendelin, Pavio, Rohde, Microwave Circuit Design, Wiley 1990.
Yannis Tsividis, Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor, 2nd ed, McGraw-Hill, c1999.
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Date |
Lecture |
Title |
Topics |
|
1/18 |
1 |
Review of
Field Theory |
origin of
circuit theory; Maxwell's eq. |
|
1/20 |
2 |
Review of
Field Theory |
power;
impedance; surface impedance |
|
1/25 |
3 |
Distributed
Circuits |
resistors,
capacitors |
|
1/27 |
4 |
T-Lines
(lossless, lossy) |
volt,
cur, impedance, swr |
|
2/1 |
5 |
T-Lines
in Time |
transients |
|
2/3 |
6 |
T-Line
Resonators |
Q factor,
"lump" Q, Layout |
|
2/8 |
7 |
ISSCC |
no
lecture |
|
2/10 |
8 |
Smith
Chart |
|
|
2/15 |
9 |
Impedance
Matching |
stubs,
multi-section (tapered) |
|
2/17 |
10 |
Imepdance Matching |
lumped
elements |
|
2/22 |
11 |
Network
Analysis |
Y,Z,S,ABCD,T |
|
2/24 |
12 |
Amplifiers
as Two-Ports |
Def of
Gain |
|
3/1 |
13 |
Amplifiers
as Two-Ports |
Gmax, Mason |
|
3/3 |
14 |
Stability |
stability
circles |
|
3/8 |
15 |
Transformer
Matching |
T-lines
at low freq, T-line baluns, etc |
|
3/10 |
16 |
Hybrids |
three
ports; four ports; power comb/div |
|
3/15 |
17 |
Hybrids |
couplers |
|
3/17 |
18 |
Hybrids |
applications
and examples |
|
3/29 |
19 |
Filters |
bloch waves, periodic structures |
|
3/31 |
20 |
Filters |
the
insertion loss method; impedance inverter; coupled T-lines; implementation
details |
|
4/5 |
21 |
Filters |
high-Z,
low-Z, distributed |
|
4/7 |
22 |
Noise |
two port
noise char; correlation term; Fmin |
|
4/12 |
23 |
Noise |
system
noise analysis |
|
4/14 |
24 |
Active
Devices (CMOS, SiGe) |
Technology,
device layout, small signal models |
|
4/19 |
25 |
LNA |
examples
from industry/academia |
|
4/21 |
26 |
Broadband
Amps |
shunt fb, active filter, dist amps |
|
4/26 |
27 |
Power
Amps |
class A,
B; distributed; examples |
|
4/28 |
28 |
Osc |
theory (neg resistance) |
|
5/3 |
29 |
Osc |
examples
from industry/academia |
|
5/5 |
30 |
Mixers |
theory |
|
5/10 |
31 |
Mixers |
examples
from industry/academia |