RF Transceiver Design

By Prof. Darshak Bhatt | IIT Roorkee

Learners enrolled: 1575 | Exam registration: 129

ABOUT THE COURSE:
The RF Transceiver design course offers comprehensive training on the principles and techniques involved in designing and implementing high-performance radio frequency Transceiver. Students in this course will gain a deep understanding of RF transceiver architecture, including components such as amplifiers, LNA, power amplifier, mixers, oscillator, VCO, introduction to PLL and synthesizer, and their integration into a complete system. The course covers topics like noise analysis, linearity, sensitivity, and dynamic range, equipping students with the knowledge to optimize transceiver performance. By the end of the course, students will be equipped with the skills necessary to design RF transceiver for various applications, including wireless communication systems, radar systems, and satellite transceivers.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: The course is typically designed for students or professionals with a background in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, RF engineering, Communication system design, VLSI Design or a related field.

PREREQUISITES: Analog circuit design, Electromagnetic Theory, Signals and System

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: All semiconductor industries such as Intel Corporation, Global Foundry, Qualcomm Inc, Micron, NXP semiconductor, ISRO, DRDO, BEL, etc.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering VLSI design
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	22 Jan 2024
End Date :	12 Apr 2024
Enrollment Ends :	05 Feb 2024
Exam Registration Ends :	16 Feb 2024
Exam Date :	21 Apr 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Wireless Systems: Classification of wireless systems; Design and performance issues: Choice of operating frequency, multiple access and duplexing, circuit switching versus packet switching, propagation, radiated power and safety; Cellular telephone systems and standards.

Week 2: Noise in RF integrated Systems: Basic threshold detection, noise temperature and noise figure, noise figure of a lossy transmission line; Noise figure of cascade systems: Noise figure of passive networks, two-port networks, Noise in Active components: CMOS/ BiCMOS,

Week 3: Distortion in Receiver Design: Linearity, Intermodulation, Dynamic Range, Sensitivity of the receiver, Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR).

Week 4: Receiver Architecture such as heterodyne, homodyne, Hartley, Weaver, advanced receiver architecture etc.,

Week 5: Active Device: Comparison of active devices such as BJT, MOSFET, MESFET, HEMT, and HBT; Circuit models for FETs and BJTs; Basic parameters of active devices such as ft/fmax, transconductance, capacitance, resistance, etc.

Week 6: Passive Components and Impedance Matching: On-chip Inductor, capacitor, resistor, resonant circuit and its application in RF IC. Various impedance matching techniques.

Week 7: Amplifier Design: Transistor Theory, Transistor S-parameters, gain & Stability, Unilateral and bilateral design, low noise amplifier (LNA Design)

Week 8: Various LNA topologies: CS/CE stage with inductive load, CS/CE stage with resistive feedbac, CG/CB topologies, noise cancellation techniques, differential LNA, Broad band amplifier design, Biasing in RF & microwave circuits

Week 9: Mixers: Mixer characteristics: Image frequency, conversion loss, noise figure; Devices for mixers: p-n junctions, Schottky barrier diode, FETs; Diode mixers: Small-signal characteristics of diode, single-ended mixer, large-signal model, switching model; FET/MOSFET Mixers: Single-ended mixer, other FET mixers; Balanced mixers; Image reject mixers.(cont)

Week 10: Mixers: Mixer characteristics: Image frequency, conversion loss, noise figure; Devices for mixers: p-n junctions, Schottky barrier diode, FETs; Diode mixers: Small-signal characteristics of diode, single-ended mixer, large-signal model, switching model; FET/MOSFET Mixers: Single-ended mixer, other FET mixers; Balanced mixers; Image reject mixers.

Week 11: Oscillators and Frequency Synthesizers: General analysis of RF oscillators, transistor oscillators, voltage-controlled oscillators, dielectric resonator oscillators, frequency synthesis methods, analysis of first and second order phase-locked loop, oscillator noise and its effect on receiver performance.(cont)

Week 12: Oscillators and Frequency Synthesizers: General analysis of RF oscillators, transistor oscillators, voltage-controlled oscillators, dielectric resonator oscillators, frequency synthesis methods, analysis of first and second order phase-locked loop, oscillator noise and its effect on receiver performance.

Books and references

1. B. Razavi, “RF Microelectronics”, 2nd Ed, Pearson, 2020
2. Thomas H. Lee, “The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits”, Cambridge University Press, 2004
3. Pozar, D.M. “Microwave and RF Design of Wireless Systems”, John Wiley & Sons. 2001
4. Gonzalez, G., “Microwave Transistor Amplifiers: Analysis and Design”, 2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall. 1997

Instructor bio

Prof. Darshak Bhatt

IIT Roorkee

Prof. Darshak Bhatt has finished his PhD from IITB-Monash Research academy. During his PhD, he has gained experience in designing various RF circuit modules such as low-noise amplifier (LNA), Mixer, oscillator, etc. He has also experienced in designing the power amplifier for the IoT application during his postdoc. He was university gold medalist during his BTech and Prime minister fellow during his PhD.

Currently, Prof. Darshak Bhatt is an Assistant Professor in Electronics & Communication Engineering at IIT Roorkee. He taught the various subject on RF design such as RF receiver design, RF system design and analysis, Microwave & mmWave circuit design, etc.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: 21 April 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

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