ECSE 600 (RFIC Design): This course covers fundamentals of the RF integrated circuit design used in radio transceivers. After brief system-level discussion and introduction of basic concepts in RF design, the course focuses on various building blocks used in radio transceiver with emphasis on main blocks used in receivers and frequency generation units such as the low noise amplifier (LNA), mixers, voltage controlled oscillators (VCO), and phase-locked loops (PLL). Important practical topics such as impedance matching and RF behavior of on-chip passive devices is covered as well.
ECSE 344 (Electronic Analysis and Design): This course covers fundThe design and analysis of real-world circuits. Topics include: junction diodes, non-ideal op-amp models, characteristics and models for large and small signal operation of bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and field effect transistors (FETs), selection of operating point and biasing for BJT and FET amplifiers. Hybrid-pi model and other advanced circuit models, cascaded amplifiers, negative feedback, differential amplifiers, oscillators, tuned circuits, and phase-locked loops. Computers will be extensively used to model circuits. Selected experiments and/or laboratory projects.