Courses persons responsible
Nikolay Tchamov

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	2 h/week	2 h/week	-	-	-	-
Exercise	1 h/week	1 h/week	-	-	-	-
Exercise work	3 h/week	3 h/week	-	-	-	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
To develop a theoretical and practical understanding of modern wireless communication receivers and transmitters, their specialized building blocks and the tradeoffs between different radio architectures.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	RF building blocks of well-established modern transmitter and receiver architectures.
2.	Parameters of key-performance RF blocks: Oscillators, low-noise amplifiers, mixers, power amplifiers and others.
3.	Circuit-level implementation examples of RF blocks.
4.	Circuit design with PSpice.
5.	Measurement specifics of RF blocks.

Requirements for completing the course
Exam and completion of the exercises.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Study material

Type	Name	Auhor	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability...	Exam material	Language
Lecture slides						Yes	English

Prerequisites

Code	Course	Credits	M/R
TLT-8016	TLT-8016 Basic Analog Circuits	6	Recommendable
TLT-8106	TLT-8106 Basic Communication Circuits	4	Recommendable

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Remarks

The course is lectured in English.

Distance learning

- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In compiling exercise, group or laboratory work

- Contact teaching: 75 %
- Distance learning: 0 %
- Proportion of a student's independent study: 25 %

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	48
Exercises	18
Laboratory assignments	36

Other scaled	Hours
Preparation for exam	4
Exam/midterm exam	3
Total sum	109

Correspondence of content
8307030 Communication Circuits & Modules

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Last modified	30.01.2007
Modified by	Sami Sipilä