Opinto-opas 2002-2003

83731 MIXED-MODE COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS AND MODULES, MIXED-MODE COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS AND MODULES, 4 ov

Lecturer info
Professor NIKOLAY TCHAMOV

Lectures and exercises:
Lectures total: 42 h. Exercise hours total: 42 h.

Weekly teaching / period	A1	A2	S1	S2	Summer
Lectures (h):	3+	3	-	-	-
Exercises (h):	3+	3	-	-	-

Course objectives
Intermediate-to-advanced level knowledge on high-frequency T/H, ADC, DAC and their applications in communications.

Content of the course
Signal Conditioning. RF V-I Converters. RF-Speed Sample/Hold & Track/Hold. High-Speed Comparators. High-Speed Current-Mode Techniques. Current-Scaling & Differential-Current-Switch Digital-to-Analog Converters. Applications in the All-Digital Receivers & Transmitters. Pipelined & Flash ADC. Oversampling ADC: First & Second Order, Interpolative & Cascaded Modulators, Sinc, FIR & IIR Decimation Filters. High- Performance ADCs. Design examples: GHz-range Track/Hold Amplifiers and Ultra-Fast Comparators. Technologies in use: BiCMOS, Bipolar, CMOS, SiGe and GaAs.

Requirements
Completion of the exercise tasks, passing the design test on using the software tools, and passing the written examination.

Prerequisites

Number	Name	OV	P/S
8307030	Communication Circuits & Modules	5	Obl.

Notes
Accepted as a Postgraduate Course. Not lectured during 2002-2003.