| Week | Topic | Reading | Handout | Homework | ||
| 8/30 | Fundamental Concepts in RF Design | Chapter 2 (Lee) | Lecture Slides (Rev.3) | HW 1 | ||
| 9/6 | Article on ADC NF | HW 1 Solutions | ||||
| ADC Survey & Analysis | ||||||
| Cadence Tutorial | ||||||
| Basics of Wireline Systems | ||||||
| ISSCC'03 Tutorial on RF Transceivers | ||||||
| 9/13 | Modulation Schemes & Multi-Access Techniques | Chapter 3, 4 (Razavi) | Lecture Slides (Rev.1) | HW 2 | ||
| HW 2 Solutions | ||||||
| 9/20 | Tranceiver Architecture Trade-offs | Chapter 19 (Lee) | Lecture Slides I (Rev.1) | |||
| Chapter 5 (Razavi) | Lecture Slides II | |||||
| Sub-sampling receiver | ||||||
| Sub-sampling UWB receiver | ||||||
| Sliding IF receiver | ||||||
| Lecture Slides III | ||||||
| 9/27 | CMOS RF Device Modeling | Chapter 5 (Lee) | Notes on MOSFET RF Model | HW 3 (Rev. 2) | ||
| Notes on MOSFET Noise Model (Rev. 2) | HW 3 Solutions | |||||
| 10/4 | BJT RF Device Modeling | Notes on BJT RF and Noise Model | ||||
| CMOS RF AC Model | ||||||
| Gate Resistance Model | ||||||
| Substrate Resistance Model | ||||||
| Model Extraction | ||||||
| CMOS RF Noise Model | ||||||
| 10/11 | Impedance Matching | Chapter 3 (Lee) | Lecture Slides | HW 4 | ||
| Pi-Match Example | HW 4 Solutions | |||||
| 10/18 | Midterm Exam (in class) | Mid-term | ||||
| Mid-term Solutions | ||||||
| Mid-term Result Distribution | ||||||
| Passive Component Modeling | Chapter 4 (Lee) | Lecture Slides (Rev. 2) | ||||
| Physical Inductor Model | ||||||
| Patterned Ground Shield | ||||||
| Transformer Model | ||||||
| 10/25 | Passive Component Modeling | |||||
| Low-Noise Amplifiers | Chapter 11 (Lee) | |||||
| 11/1 | Low-Noise Amplifiers | Chapter 12 (Lee) | Lecture Slides (Rev. 2) | HW 5 (Rev. 2) | ||
| Low-Noise Amplifiers | HW 5 Solutions | |||||
| 11/8 | High-Frequency Amplifiers | Chapter 9 (Lee) | Lecture Slides | |||
| 11/15 | Mixers | Chapter 13 (Lee) | Lecture Slides 1 | |||
| Mixers | ||||||
| 11/22 | Mixers | Chapter 13 (Lee) | Lecture Slides 2 | HW 6 | ||
| No class - Thanksgiving Holiday | ||||||
| 11/29 | Voltage-Controlled Oscillators | Chapter 17 (Lee) | Lecture Slides (Rev. 2) | |||
| Voltage-Controlled Oscillators | Chapter 18 (Lee) | |||||
| 12/6 | Voltage-Controlled Oscillators | |||||
| Final Exam (take-home) | Final Exam | |||||
| Phase-Locked Loops | Chapter 16 (Lee) | |||||