RF Transceivers detailed syllabus for Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ECE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Communication Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ECE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to ECE Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of rf transceivers is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
CMOS PHYSICS, TRANSCEIVER SPECIFICATIONS AND 6 ARCHITECTURES CMOS: Introduction to MOSFET Physics – Noise: Thermal, shot, flicker, popcorn noise – Transceiver Specifications: Two port Noise theory, Noise Figure, THD, IP2, IP3, Sensitivity, SFDR -Phase noise – Transceiver Architectures: Receiver: Homodyne, Heterodyne, Image reject, Low-IF Architectures – Transmitter: Direct-up conversion, Two-step up conversion schemes
Unit II
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Unit III
FEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND POWER AMPLIFIERS 6 Feedback Systems: Stability of feedback systems, Gain and phase margin, Root-locus techniques, Time and Frequency domain considerations, Compensation – Power Amplifiers: General model -Class A, AB, B, C, D, E and F amplifiers – Linearization Techniques – Efficiency boosting techniques – ACPR metric
Unit IV
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Unit V
PLL AND FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS 6 PLL: Linearized Model, Noise properties, Phase detectors, Loop filters and Charge pumps-Frequency Synthesizers: Integer-N frequency synthesizers – Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizers
Practical Exercises:
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Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
- Interpret the nonlinear effects in RF circuits
- Design RF circuits
- Analyze the performance of RF circuits
- Apply knowledge to identify a suitable architecture and systematically design an RF System
- Comprehensively record and report the measured data, and would be capable analyzing, interpreting the experimentally measured data and produce the conclusions
Text Books:
- Lee T, Design of CMOS RF Integrated Circuits, Cambridge, Second Edition, 2004
- Razavi B, RF Microelectronics, Pearson Education, Second Edition, 2012
Reference Books:
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For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Electronics & Communication Engineering 5th Sem, visit ECE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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