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AD2B37ROZ	Radio Circuits and Devices
Roles:		Extent of teaching:	14+6s
Department:	13137	Language of teaching:	CS
Guarantors:		Completion:	Z,ZK
Lecturers:		Credits:	6
Tutors:		Semester:	Z

Web page:

https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/course/view.php?id=121

Anotation:

The goal of the subject is to inform the students about properties, parameters, and design methodology of radio circuits, radio function blocks, and more complex blocks of radio transmitters and receivers. The lectures are devoted sequentially to elements, circuits, function blocks, and systems which are used at radio frequencies. The exercises are both seminar and laboratory; the seminars are devoted the basic calculations from the area of the radio function blocks, and the measurements are devoted to both basic function blocks and more complex problems from the area of radio transmitters and receivers.

Study targets:

Presenting knowledge for practical radio circuits design.

Course outlines:

1.		Two-port circuit parameters, voltage, current, and power gain, stability, linear and nonlinear distortions, IPn
2.		Noise parameters of elements and two-port circuits, noise figure, noise temperature, noise measure
3.		Cascade synthesis, gain, noise parameters, IPn of the cascade
4.		High-frequency properties of passive elements, resonators, parasitic effects, capacitors and inductors
5.		Impedance matching with the elements with concentrated selectivity, impedance transformers
6.		Filters for radio devices (with lumped parameters, SAW, crystal, with resonators)
7.		Special high-frequency semiconductor elements and their characterization, HBT, GaAs FET, HEMT, PIN, varicaps, varactors, RF switches
8.		Wide-band and narrow-band amplifiers, stability, semisymbolic analysis, differential amplifier, cascode and other basic blocks, amplifier with controlled gain, VGA, DVGA, AGC, ABCD power amplifiers
9.		Detectors and mixers, quasi-linear analysis, conversion loss, mixers with diodes and FETs, quadrature modulators and demodulators
10.		Feedback and crystal oscillators, phase noise, VCO, oscillators with the elements with negative differential resistance, PLL
11.		Types of receivers, superhet with simple and double mixing, ZIF and NZIF receivers
12.		System design of receivers
13.		Transmitters, nonlinear analysis
14.		Software radio

Exercises outline:

MEASUREMENT:

1.		Basic parameters and characteristics of receivers
2.		Filters, measurement of transfer characteristics, LC, SAW, crystal filter
3.		A-, B-, and C-class amplifiers
4.		Mixer, mixing products, IP1, IP3
5.		Digital radio DRM
6.		Digital TV DVB-T
7.		PLL
8.		Measurement on transmitter

SEMINARS:

9.		Cascade synthesis
10.		High-frequency properties of passive elements
11.		Receivers, mirror frequency, double mixing
12.		Oscillators
13.		Amplifier, differential amplifier, selective amplifier
14.		Mixers, conversion parameters

Literature:

1.		G.V. Vendelin, A.M.Pavio, U.L. Rohde, Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey 2005.
2.		Y. Sun, Wireless Communication Circuits and Systems, IEE, London 2004.
3.		U. Rohde, J. Whitaker, Communications Receivers, DSP, Software Radios, and Design, Third edition, McGraw-Hill 2001, ISBN 0-07-136121-9.
4.		W. Egan, Partial RF System Design, Wiley-Interscience 2003, ISBN 0-471-20023-9.

(+ http://radio.feld.cvut.cz/personal/dobes2/dobes.en.pdf (PDFs for Education))

Requirements:

see moodle.kme.fel.cvut.cz

Keywords:

Radio circuits, radio devices

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