rf/analog ic design fundamentals:

Content

Wireless Communication Principles

Wireless Communication Principles (continued)

Review SiGe BICMOS Technology: process, device, and models

Noise in Semiconductor Devices (review)

Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) Design

LNA Design (cont), review of 7WL chip design and layout

Mixers

Modulators & Demodulators, Gilbert quadrature mixer

Biasing, Band Gap Reference Circuits

Feedback systems, root-locus techniques, stability

Feedback systems, root-locus techniques, stability (continued)

RF power amplifier design

Modulation of RF power amplifiers

RF power amplifier design examples

Oscillators

Oscillators (continued)
          
Phase-Locked Loops (continued)
             
Synthesizers

Phase Noise

Phase Noise (continued)

Continuous-time filters: Gm-C filters, BIP/CMOS transconductors

RF Architectures: superheterodyne, direct conversion, transmitters

Chip Design Examples (GPS Receiver Chip)

Chip Design Examples (5-GHz WLAN Receiver)

Chip Design Examples (802.11a Direct Conversion WLAN XCVR)

Antennas

Literature

RFID Technology

Textbooks 

The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, T. H. Lee,
An Introduction to Radio Frequency Engineering, C. Coleman