Oregon State High-Speed Integrated Circuits Lab


School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University


ECE 621: RF and Microwave Circuit Design

  • Objective: Develop an understanding of principles, design and analysis of CMOS radio-frequency circuits

  • Instructor: Arun Natarajan, nataraja@eecs.oregonstate.edu , KEC 4105, Phone: 541 737 0606

  • Spring 2013 (April 1, 2013 to June 14, 2013); Monday, Wednesday 5 pm - 6.20 pm in KEC 1005

  • Grading: Midterm (05/13/2013): 30%, Homeworks: 20%, Project #1: 20%, Project #2: 30%

  • Office hours: Tuesday 2.30pm - 3.30pm or by appointment

  • Textbook: RF Microelectronics, 2nd Ed., Behzad Razavi, Prentice Hall, 2012

  • References:
  • The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Thomas Lee, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 2004.

  • Oregon State University Academic Dishonesty Policy is applicable to this course. It is available at Student Code of Conduct: OAR 576-015-0020(2)

  • Discussion with other students on Homework assignments is allowed. Please write up your own solutions and acknowledge if you received substantial help on a problem. On assignments that involve design tools, please type your own code/run your own simulations and report results.

  • Tentative Course Outline:

    • Transceiver Architectures, Transistor models, distortion, noise (2 weeks)
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    • On-chip Passive RLC networks, impedance matching(1 week)
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    • LNAs, Mixers(2 weeks)
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    • Oscillators, phase noise(2 weeks)
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    • Power Amplifiers(1 week)
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