ECE 598JZ: Radio-Freq IC & System Dsgn

Lecture Schedule

Date            Topic            
1 2019/1/14 Introduction
2 2019/1/16 CMOS transistors review, fT and fmax
2019/1/21 MLK Day
3 2019/1/23 Silicon Passive components and ideal loop inductor
4 2019/1/28 On-chip inductor loss mechanism
5 2019/2/4 on-chip spiral inductors and transformers
6 2019/2/6 Low-noise amplifier introduction and NFmin
7 2019/2/11 RFIC LNA design overview & inductively degenerated LNA
8 2019/2/13 RFIC LNA design overview & inductively degenerated LNA (continue)
9 2019/2/18 Other types of CMOS LNAs
10 2019/2/20 Nonlinear distortion
11 2019/2/25 Wireless standard review - receiver
12 2019/2/27 Hour exam - I
13 2019/3/4 Wireless receiver architectures
14 2019/3/6 Mixers basics
15 2019/3/11 Current-driven passive mixer and current-mode receiver
16 2019/3/13 Mixer noise figure
2019/3/16–24 Spring Break
17 2019/3/25 Receiver performance analysis
18 2019/3/27 Hour exam - II
19 2019/4/1 Introduction to Oscillator
20 2019/4/3 Phase noise
21 2019/4/8 Linear Time-Vary Phase-Noise Theory
22 2019/4/10 Cross Coupled LC Oscillator
23 2019/4/15 Cross Coupled LC Oscillator 2
24 2019/4/17 Power Amplifier
25 2019/4/22 Power Amplifier
26 2019/4/24 Wireless standard review - transmitter
27 2019/4/29 Wireless transmitter architectures
28 2019/5/1 Hour exam - III