ECE 145 B (undergraduate)

ECE 218B (graduate)

Radio-Frequency / Microwave IC design 

Prof. Mark Rodwell, ECE Department, UCSB

Subject material:

RF/Microwave circuits. Physical principles of communications systems design. Circuit noise analysis. Low noise amplifier design. Receiver Sensitivity. Nonlinearities, sum and difference frequency generation. Harmonic and intermodulation distortion. Mixers and frequency conversion. Oscillators. Receiver and Transmitter architectures.

Grading.

The grading for seniors and graduate students will be separate. Graduate students taking the course will have more difficult assignments.

The grade for this course will be based *approximately* on the following:

Lab Projects 30%

(lab1: 5%; lab2 10%; lab3 15%)

Final 30%

Midterm 30%

Homework 10%