ECE145B/218B
Spring 2008

ECE Department
University of California
Santa Barbara

 

Course Syllabus and Outcomes

Link to RBR on line

solution to Spring 2007 final exam

Lecture Notes

Introduction to Receivers (From ECE145A)

Mixer Notes 1

Mixer Notes 2: quadrature and image reject mixing

An excellent reference on quadrature mixing by Richard Lyons

Reference on Polyphase Filter Design

resonators and Q

Oscillator Notes 1:Colpitts

Oscillator Notes 2

ADS simulation of oscillators

Feedback Notes 1

Feedback Notes 2: frequency response, stability and compensation

Phase Locked Loop Notes 1: Introduction to the PLL: FM Demodulator and frequency synthesizer applications

Phase Locked Loop Notes 2: Frequency Synthesizer- third order PFD charge pump PLL

Vaucher, Adaptive PLL Tuning System Architecture: Reference on third-order CP PLL design

Slides on direct digital frequency synthesis

direct digital frequency synthesis from Analog Devices

Slides from MIT on Fractional-N frequency synthesis

Reference on Oscillator Phase Noise

Some Low Phase Noise Oscillator Designs

 

Homework Assignment Links

Homework assignment #1 (Due 4/11/08)

Homework assignment #2 (Due 4/18/08)

Homework assignment #3 (Due 4/25/08)

Homework assignment #4 (Due 5/14/08)

Homework assignment #5 (Due 5/23/08)

 

Lab Assignments

ECE145B Lab 1

Lab 1: Diode Mixer Evaluation - due 4/14/08 @ 5pm

ECE218B RFIC Design Lab

HBT RFIC Lab for ECE218B - report and design review due 5/16/08

Description of how to use the Triquint inductor simulation tool

 

ECE145B VCO Design Project - Due 5/2/08

ECE145B Design Lab #2

 

ECE145B Frequency Synthesizer Design Project Lab #3 - Due 6/6/08

ECE145B Design Lab #3

 

Frequency Synthesizer Design Project Lab #3 - Due 6/6/08

ECE218B Lab Assignment #3

 

Tutorials and extra material

Harmonic Balance Tutorial

How to use the ADS mixer design guide

How to create subnetworks in ADS

Equivalent circuit models for Coilcraft chip inductors

Using Matlab to simulate feedback system stability

Sampling as a frequency translation technique


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