EE8337: Analog Circuits for Wired/Wireless Communications
Spring 2019
Course
Material
- Handout 1 (pdf)
- Grading:
Midterm I 25%, Final 25%, Homework 15%, Interim project report 10%, Final
project report 25%.
- Book errata (pdf)
Midterms
- Midterm 1 March13th
(in class)
- Final take home (test handed out on Sunday May 12th
5pm via email and to be returned in my office on Monday May 13th
by 5pm) (Course material : all the material covered in class)
Class
notes & slides
- Chapter 1 Introduction
to wireless (1st set of slides.
password protected)
- Chapter 2
Nonlinearity, noise, dynamic range (3rd
set of slides, Password protected)
- Chapter 3 (Modulation
++) (4th set of slides,
Password protected)
- Chapter 4 (Transceiver
architecture)(5th set of
slides, Password protected)
- Sliding
IF matlab + Simulink files (Simulink,
matlab, password protected)
- Using
matlab pwelch & scaling correctly (Hanspeter Schmid) (link)
- 802.11a
spur table (excel,
password protected)
- Chapter 5 (LNA)(6th set of slides, Password
protected)
- Chapter 6 (Mixer) (7th set of slides, Password
protected)
- Chapter 7 Passives (9th set of slides, password
protected)
- Chapter 8 Oscillators
(10th set of slides,
password protected)
- Chapter 9 PLL (11th
set of slides, password protected)
Homework
- HW #1, Due Friday Feb
1st (Do problems 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5)
- HW #2, Due Friday Feb
8th (Do problems 2.11, 2.19, 2.21, 2.23)
- HW #3, Due Friday Mar
1st (Do problem 3.1, 3.5, 3.6)
- HW #4 Due Friday Mar 8th
(Do problems 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.7)
- HW #5 Due Friday Apr
12th (Do problems 6.2, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7)
Project
802.11a
- Download the IEEE
802.11a wireless standard from here
- Introduction to OFDM
- Some companies
designing and developing 802.11a products
- Atheros, Broadcom, Bermai, Radiata,
Intersil, RFMD, Intel
Streaming
Audio & Video
- Streaming audio: Unite provides
same-day access downloadble audio podcasts for on-campus students
- Streaming video: Unite students can
access taped versions of this class can be viewed on/off campus and via
modem connections.
Other
RF/Wireless course websites
Other
Relevant Books
General
references
- Integrated
Circuits for Wireless Communications
Editors: Asad A. Abidi, Paul R. Gray, and Robert G. Meyer, IEEE Press,
1998
- Planar
Microwave Engineering
T. H. Lee, Cambridge Academic Press 2004
- Electromagnetics
for High-Speed Analog and Digital Communication Circuits
Ali M. Niknejad, Cambridge Academic Press 2007
- Design
of Integrated Circuits for Optical Communications
B. Razavi, McGraw Hill, 2003
- Radio Frequency
Integrated Circuit Design
John Rogers and Calvin Plett, Artech House 2003
- Radio Frequency
Integrated Circuits and Technologies
Frank Ellinger, Springer 2006
- Radio Design in
Nanometer Technologies
Mahommed Ismail and Delia Rodriguez de Llera Gonzalez, Springer 2006
- RF System Design of
Tranceivers for Wireless Communications
Qizheng Gu, Springer 2005
- CMOS Wireless
Transceiver design
J. Crols and M. Steyaert, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997
- Modern Receiver
Front-Ends: Systems
J. Laskar, B. Matinpour, S. Chakraborty, Circuits, and Integration, Wiley,
2004
- Practical RF System
Design
W. F. Egan, Wiley, 2003
- RF Design Guide:
Systems, Circuits, and Equations
Peter Vizmuller, Artech House 1995
PLL
& Synthesizers
- Communications
Receivers: Principles and Design,
U. Rohde, J. Whitaker, and T. Bucher, McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 1996
- Phased Locked Loops
Ronald E. Best, McGraw-Hill 2007
- Phaselock Techniques
Flyod M. Gardner, Wiley-Interscience 2005
- Phaselock Basics
William F. Egan, Wiley-IEEE Press 2007
- Monolithic Phase-Locked
Loops and Clock Recovery Circuits: Theory and Design
Editor: B. Razavi, Wiley-IEEE Press1996
- Phase-Locking in
High-Performance Systems: From Devices to Architectures
Editor: B. Razavi, Wiley-IEEE Press 2003
Power
Amplifiers
- RF Power Amplifiers
for Wireless Communications (2nd edition)
Steve Cripps, Artech House 2006
- High Linearity RF
Amplifier Design
Peter B. Kenington, Artech House 2000
- RF Power Amplifiers
Mihai Albulet, Noble Publishing Associates 2001
Software
Defined Radios
- RF and Baseband Techniques
for Software Defined Radio
Peter B. Kennington, Artech House, 2005
Other
Relevant websites
- Math software
tools
- Mathcad: everyday math tool.
- Student
version available. (worth investing in)
- Useful
for overall circuit design and documentation. Also does limited symbolic
manipulations.
- Matlab: numerical
and signal processing simulation tool
- Student
version available
- Simulink : block
diagram based front-end to matlab. Extremely powerful. Worth using.
- Matlab
primer available here
- LiveMath: good symbolic manipulation
software. Helps avoid simple mistakes.
- Student
version available.
- Circuit simulation (HSPICE:
Available in IT Labs as well, Look at HSPICE
FAQ)
HSPICE is general purpose SPICE variant.
- HSPICE
manual in PDF
format (available in /soft/hspice98/doc on IT workstations)
- SPICE
2G6 manual (early version of
Berkeley SPICE)
- Cadence help files
- Serenade contains
Harmonica and Symphony (from www.ansoft.com)
- Filter design software
(Filter Solutions from www.nuhertz.com)
- Smithchart software
(Use the downloads link) (Help file is in german. But the program is easy
and intuitive)
Bluetooth
sites
UWB
Sites
- Most relevant UWB
sites
- Other ultra-wideband
relevant sites
Usefull
VLSI Links