Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Integrated circuits for communications (17.EM516A)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Electronics
ECTS	6

To gain the knowledge in design of integrated circuits used in communication systems. To get knowledge and ability to combine theory and RF and analog integrated circuits design concepts while designing basic communication blocks.

-to gain knowledge about the basic performance parameters and problems in communication systems - to acquire ability to design basic building blocks in communication systems (power amplifiers, oscillators, filters, comparators, voltage regulators, frequency synthesizers ...). - to gain knowledge about various technique that can be used to improve performance of some communication blocks - to acquire ability to optimize integrated circuits performance with respect to different constraints.

Power amplifiers (fundamentals, linearity, efficiency, class A, B, AB, C, D, E and F, basic linearization techniques). Oscillators (performance parameters and basic principles, amplitude and frequency stability. waveform distortion, phase noise, ring oscillators, relaxation oscillators, LC oscillators, negative-gm oscillators, voltage-controlled oscillators). Supply and temperature independent integrated voltage references (principle of operation, bipolar and CMOS technology realization) Integrated voltage regulators (Zener diode voltage regulators, low dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulators). Filters (filter characteristics and transfer function, filter response approximation, passive circuits synthesis, active filters realization: gm-C, RC-OP and SC filters, cascade realization). Comparators (specifications and performance parameters, input offset and noise, hysteresis, multi-stage comparators). Frequency synthesizers and phase-locked loops (basic principles and architecture, voltage controlled oscillator, frequency divider, phase detector, loop filter, phase noise and jitter).

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.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
John Rogers, Calvin Plett	Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Design	2010	Artech House	English
Thomas Lee	The design of CMOS RF integrated circuits	2004	Cambridge University Press	English
Tony Chan Carusone, David A.Johns, Kenneth W. Martin	Analog integrated CMOS design	2012	John Wiley & Sons	English
Behzad Razavi	Fundamentals of Microelectronics	2014	Wiley	English
Behzad Razavi	RF Microelectronics	2012	Prentice Hall	English