Introduction, Course Syllabus and Outcomes
Distortion and noise in receiver systems
Design of low noise amplifiers
Mixer Notes 2: quadrature and image reject mixing
An excellent reference on quadrature mixing by Richard Lyons
Reference on Polyphase Filter Design
Reference on Oscillator Phase Noise
Some Low Phase Noise Oscillator Designs
Feedback Notes: frequency response, stability and compensation
Phase Locked Loop Notes 1: Introduction to the PLL: 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
Clock and Data Recovery Lecture Notes
Homework assignment #1 (Due 1/14/2011)
Homework assignment #2 (Due 1/28/2011)
Homework assignment #3 (Due 2/4/2011)
Homework assignment #4 (Due 2/25/2011)
Homework assignment #5 (Due 3/7/2011)
Lab 1: Amplifier and Mixer Evaluation - Report due 1/24/11
Extracting data from network analyzer into ADS
Tutorial on the spectrum analyzer
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
The following are Agilent ADS archive (.zap) files. You can download them into your user directory and unarchive them using ADS.
ADS Tutorial on Stability and Gain Circles
ADS Noise Figure Design and Display Files