Introduction to RF Electronics, 5 cr

Tampere University

Description
Completion options

Teaching periods

Course code

COMM.RF.200

Language of instruction

English

Academic years

2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027

Level of study

Intermediate studies

Grading scale

Pass-Fail

Persons responsible

Responsible teacher:

Mikko Valkama

Responsible teacher:

Jari Kangas

Responsible organisation

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %

Coordinating organisation

Electrical Engineering Studies 100 %

Sustainable development goals

Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Functional blocks and functioning of a simple radio transmitter.
Use of linear circuit theory and complex number phasors and related complex number arithmetic to analyze RF-circuits.
Impedance, resonance, transfer function, feedback, criteria of oscillation.
Passive and active components as building blocks of RF communications circuits: transistor amplifier, oscillator, filter, oscillator, modulator, and antenna
Typical RF design principles and terminology used in RF electronics.
Basics of electromagnetic waves, properties of transmission lines and elementary antennas.
Construction and testing of basic RF circuits and antennas.
Small signal modeling, nonidealities and basic high frequency component models (passive basic components, PN-diode, NPN-transistor, Shockley-equation, Ebers-Moll transistor model).

Learning outcomes

Prerequisites

Compulsory prerequisites

Further information

Equivalences

Studies that include this course

Completion option 1

Succesfully completed assignments. Active participation to coursework (points are awarded by completing online and other out-of-class assignments as well as inclass activities). Guidance in inclass sessions can be given also suomeksi (i.e. in Finnish)

Participation in teaching

1. Lectures (English)

26.08.2024 – 13.10.2024

2. Lectures (English)

03.03.2025 – 25.04.2025