rf/analog ic design (advanced applications):

Content

Connectors, Cables, & Waveguides; Xmsn line matching

Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, Xfmrs

Microstrip, Stripline, & Planar Passive Elements

Microstrip, Stripline, & Planar Passive Elements (continued)

Microstrip, Stripline, & Planar Passive Elements (continued)

Impedance Measurement

Measurement of Noise Figure & Phase Noise

Microwave Diodes, GaAs Devices, Microwave Biasing, Stability

Class Presentation

Sampling Scopes, Spectrum Analyzers, & Probes

Synthesizer Fundamentals

Design of Synthesizer Building Blocks

Design of Synthesizer Building Blocks

Low Voltage Synthesizer Design, Behavioral Simulation

Example: A 2V 900 MHz CMOS Dual-Loop Freq Syn for GSM

Example: A 1V 5.2 GHz CMOS Synthesizer for WLAN 802.11a

Oversampling (Delta-Sigma) A/D & D/A Converters

Oversampling (Delta-Sigma) A/D & D/A Converters

Test demo of 1-GHz PCB Receiver Parts (LNA, Mixer, FM Block)

Antennas

Lumped Filters

Microstrip Filters

Microstrip Filters (continued)

Competition Demo of 1-GHz PCB Complete FM Receiver Design

Textbooks 

Planar Microwave Engineering, T. H. Lee
Low Voltage CMOS RF Frequency Synthesizers, Luong and Leung