Courses persons responsible
Victor Acinas Garzon

Lecturers
Victor Acinas Garzon

Lecturetimes and places
Per IV,V: Tuesday 10 - 12, TC161

Implementations

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

(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
The objective of this course is to learn the essential concepts of RF and microwave electronics. The student shoud learn the basic definitions and concepts relating to high frequency design. From that on the student can build a firm understanding of how active and passive RF circuits function.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Practical use of transmission line theory.	Microstrips
2.	Impedance matching using e.g. the Smith chart.
3.	Description of linear multiport networks.	Signal flow charts.
4.	RF and microwave resonators and filters implementations.	Filter design.

Requirements for completing the course
Students collect points from various tasks that contribute to learning (homework, attending lectures, weekly tests, project work, final exam, course feeback, etc.) There will be a minimum number of points for passing the course, e.g., 50 out of 100.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Study material

Type	Name	Auhor	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability...	Exam material	Language
Book	RF circuit design Theory and Applications	Ludwig - Bretchko	0-13-122475-1			No	English

Prerequisites

Code	Course	Credits	M/R
SMG-8306	SMG-8306 Transmission lines and waveguides	7	Recommendable

Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Remarks

Theory and exercise lectures are put together in one lecture.

Distance learning

- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
- In compiling exercise, group or laboratory work
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
- In the visualization of objects and phenomena, e.g. animations, demonstrations, simulations, video clips

- Contact teaching: 30 %
- Distance learning: 0 %
- Proportion of a student's independent study: 70 %

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	72
Exercises	108

Study materials	Hours
Text book	35

Other scaled	Hours
Exam/midterm exam	3
Total sum	218

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Last modified	31.08.2007
Modified by	Victor Acinas Garzon