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Course Catalog 2013-2014
ELT-47266 Active RF Circuits, 5 cr |
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies
Person responsible
Toni Björninen, Olli-Pekka Lunden
Lessons
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Requirements
There is no exam in this course. To pass the course, students need to collect points from various tasks, including homework submissions and a seminar report.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning
In this course students are expected to be active and work throughout the course, in class and at home, both in groups and individually. The activities are various: reading, information search, essays, problem solving, simulations, design problems, quizzes, evaluation of others work, teacher's feedback and counseling, discussions, presentations, and report writing, to name some. However, the course does not include lectures. This course aims at supporting students in their growth to attain the identity of a professional in electronics. The course offers many possibilities to improve general skills relevant in the profession of an electronics engineer. The in-depth subject matters provide the students expertise in a particular field in radio frequency electronics. Gaining this expertise is supposed to empower the students; by building up their expertise they become confident about their potential in any field, more or less close to the subject. Even though the subject matters are confined to a relatively narrow scope, the course offers possibilities to gain skills that are generally applicable to normal working situations and related problem solving. The course is intended to be taken together with ELE-6286 RF Project, in which the students are given the chance to readily test their theoretical learnings in practice.
Learning Outcomes
After completing the course the student understands advanced RF engineering concepts and is able to analyze and design active RF circuits. He/she will be able to design a low-noise amplifier from a scratch. The student is able to write a technical report and present its contents to others in a seminar.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | RF transistor amplifier design using Z/Y and S parameters. Bi-conjugate matching and power flow analysis of two-port microwave circuits, stability, noise figure, linearity. Implementation of matching circuits using lumped and transmission line components. | Matlab RF toolbox, RF circuit simulations. Aspects in practical implementations. |
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
| Book | Microwave Engineering | David M. Pozar | Preferably Second Edition. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. Chapters 5-9 partly and the whole chapter 11. | No | Suomi | ||
| Book | Microwave Transistor Amplifiers Analysis and Design | Guillermo Gonzales | Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997. | No | English | ||
| Book | RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications | Reinhold Ludwig, Gene Bogdanov | 0131471376, 9780131471375 | No | English | ||
| Book | RF Design Guide, Systems, Circuits, and Equations | Peter Vizmuller | Artech House, 1995. | No | English | ||
| Book | RF circuit design Theory and Applications | Ludwig - Bretchko | 0-13-122475-1 | No | English |
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