Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Electronics in Communication (17.EM411A)

Native organizations units: Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Type of studies	Title

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Electronics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	5

Educational goal:

To gain the basic knowledge in telecommunication electronics design. To get knowledge and ability to combine theory and simulation skills while designing basic RF integrated circuits.

Educational outcome:

-to gain knowledge about the basic telecommunication electronics circuits performance parameters and problems -to acquire ability to recognize the basic transceiver topologies - to gain knowledge about simulation of the basic RF circuits (matching circuits, narrow bandwidt and wide bandwidth amplifiers, low noise amplifier, mixers, ...). - to gain knowledge about various technique that can be used to improve performance of some telecommunication circuits (narrow bandwidth amplifier, wide bandwidth amplifier, low noise amplifier, mixer,...)

Course content:

The history of radio communication. Electromagnetic sprectrum and allocation. Basic issues in RF circuits. Modulation/demodulation. RF transmitter and receiver (basics). Intereference and filtering. Nonlinearity issues. Noise issues. Sensitivity and dynamic range. Impedance transformation. Passive RLC circuits and their characteristic parameters. Maximum power transfer theorem. Matching circuits (L-match, pi-match, t-match, tapped capacitor resonator, tapped inductor resonator, double-tapped resonator). Transceiver architectures (homodyne and heterodyne). Passive devices (inductors, transformers, varactors, signal pads). Wiring and integration (On-chip interconnectors, Off-chip wiring, ground connections, substrate noise, RF packages, pads for RF). BW estimation. HF broadband and NB amplifiers. Noise parameters, noise sources in MOSFET. Design of narrowband LNA (techniques and procedure) . Design of broad-band LNA (techniques). Mixers (image aliasing, image rejection, feedthrough effects, noise (SSB vs. DSB NF), noise folding, nonlinearity, IP3). Single vs. double-balanced mixer implementation. Gilbert Mixer (advantages, noise, linearity, improvements ). Other mixer topologies (Square-Law Mixer, Passive Mixers).

Teaching methods:

Lectures; EDA tools laboratory exercises; Consultations. After completion of laboratory exercises students will work on a project, that finished contributes to the final mark with 40% maximum.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
David M. Pozar	Microwave Engineering	2012	Wiley & Sons	English
T. H. Lee	The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits	2004	Cambridge University Press	English
B. Razavi	RF Microelectronics	2012	Prentice-Hall	English
Ali M. Niknejad	Electromagnetics for High-Speed Analog and Digital Communication Circuits	2007	Cambridge University Press	English