• Aniruddhan S

• ESB106

F slot: Tue: 5-5:50pm; Wed 11-11:50am; Thu 9-9:50am

Registered students can login and see the course page at https://courses.iitm.ac.in/. Resources, tutorials, exam schedules, discussion forum etc. can be accessed from the moodle page.

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Assignments - 20% 3 Projects - 60% End Semester - 20%

1. 2020-01-14 (pdf) low resolution video: Introduction to the course
2. 2020-01-16 (pdf) low resolution video: Series and Parallel resonant networks
3. 2020-01-17 (pdf) low resolution video: L, Pi and T matching networks
4. 2020-01-21 (pdf) low resolution video: Tapped-L and -C matching networks; Matching to a complex impedance
5. 2020-01-22 (pdf) low resolution video: Noise Factor, Noise Figure, Friis equation
6. 2020-01-23 (pdf) low resolution video: Sensitivity; Nonlinearity in RF systems
7. 2020-01-28 (pdf) low resolution video: Weakly nonlinear systems with single-tone input
8. 2020-01-29 (pdf) low resolution video: Weakly nonlinear systems with two-tone input; IIP3
9. [2020-02-04] (pdf): Introduction to Low Noise Amplifiers (No video recording)
10. 2020-02-05 (pdf) low resolution video: Common Source amplifier with input shunt resistor
11. 2020-02-06 (pdf) low resolution video: Common Gate LNA
12. 2020-02-11 (pdf) low resolution video: Common Source LNA - 1 (Input matching)
13. 2020-02-12 (pdf) low resolution video: Common Source LNA - 2 (Gain)
14. 2020-02-18 (pdf) low resolution video: Common Source LNA - 3 (Noise Figure)
15. 2020-02-19 (pdf) low resolution video: Common Source LNA - 4 (Design procedure)
16. 2020-02-20 (pdf) low resolution video: Noise cancelling LNAs - 1
17. 2020-02-21 (pdf) low resolution video: Noise cancelling LNAs - 2
18. 2020-02-26 (pdf) low resolution video: Noise cancelling LNAs - 3
19. 2020-02-27 (pdf) low resolution video: Designing for IIP3; Spiral Inductors
20. 2020-03-03 (pdf) low resolution video: Spiral Inductors and its pi model
21. 2020-03-04 (pdf) low resolution video: Spiral Inductors and transformers
22. 2020-03-05 (pdf) low resolution video: S-parameters; CG LNA with feedback
23. 2020-03-12 (pdf) low resolution video: Gain boosted CG LNA

The remaining portion of the course will be run using previously recorded lectures. Please study the lectures in the order posted below. The lectures have been segregated weekwise, for a Monday-Friday schedule. There will be about 3 lectures per week.

Week of 30th March 2020-3rd April 2020.

1. 2013-09-16 (pdf) low resolution video: Introduction to Mixers; Two-port mixers
2. 2013-09-18 (pdf) low resolution video: Gilbert-cell mixers
3. 2013-09-20 (pdf) low resolution video: Gilbert-cell mixer transconductors

Week of 6th April 2020-10th April 2020.

1. 2013-09-23 (pdf) low resolution video: Gilbert-cell mixer - nonlinearity and noise
2. 2013-09-25 (pdf) low resolution video: Gilbert-cell mixer - Noise analysis (1)
3. 2013-09-27 (pdf) low resolution video: Gilbert-cell mixer - Noise analysis (2)

Week of 13th April 2020-17th April 2020.

1. 2013-09-30 (pdf) low resolution video: Sampling passive mixer
2. 2013-10-01 (pdf) low resolution video: Input impedance of passive mixers
3. 2013-10-04 (pdf) low resolution video: Passive mixer noise analysis

Week of 20th April 2020-24th April 2020.

1. 2013-10-07 (pdf) low resolution video: Transmitter architectures - 1
2. 2013-10-09 (pdf) low resolution video: Transmitter architectures - 2
3. 2013-08-14 (pdf) low resolution video: Image Problem in Receivers; Direct-conversion receiver

Week of 27th April 2020-1st May 2020.

1. 2013-10-14 (pdf) low resolution video: Direct-conversion receiver
2. 2013-10-18 (pdf) low resolution video: Hartley and Weaver Receivers
3. 2013-10-21 (pdf) low resolution video: Introduction to Oscillators

Week of 4th May 2020-8th May 2020.

1. 2013-10-23 (pdf) low resolution video: Cross-coupled LC Oscillators - 1
2. 2013-10-25 (pdf) low resolution video: Cross-coupled LC Oscillators - 2
3. 2013-10-28 (pdf) low resolution video: Cross-coupled LC Oscillators - 3
4. 2013-10-30 (pdf) low resolution video: Introduction to Phase Noise

Week of 11th May 2020-15th May 2020.

1. 2013-11-01 (pdf) low resolution video: Phase Noise - LTI Analysis
2. 2013-11-04 (pdf) low resolution video: Phase Noise - LTV Analysis
3. 2013-11-05 (pdf) low resolution video: VCO Design
4. 2013-11-06 (pdf) low resolution video: Single-transistor VCOs; Quadrature signal generation

1. Q relation in Pi- and T- matches: pdf
2. Introduction to S-parameters (Prof. Ali Niknejad's lecture notes at UC Berkeley): pdf

Assignments will be posted below, and should be submitted as a single pdf file on Moodle. You are expected to solve them on your own. You can approach the teaching assistants for clarifications and help.

1. Assignment 1 on matching networks (pdf)
2. Assignment 2 on noise figure (pdf)
3. Assignment 3 on Feedback LNA noise figure (pdf)

This course has 3 major circuit design and simulation projects. They will be posted below periodically. The project report should be submitted as a single pdf file on Moodle. You are expected to design and simulate them on your own. You can approach the teaching assistants for clarifications and help.

1. Project 1 on LNA Design (pdf)
2. Project 2 on Mixer Design (pdf)
3. Project 3 on VCO Design (pdf)

• Primary Textbook: RF Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi, 2nd Edition (2013) (Publisher: Pearson), ISBN-10: 9789332518636, ISBN-13: 9789332518636
• Other References: The Design Of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits by Thomas H. Lee, 2nd Edition (2006) (Publisher: Cambridge University Press), ISBN-10: 0521613892, ISBN-13: 9780521613897

• Analog Circuits

Attendance will be strictly enforced and those falling short will not be permitted to write the end sem exam. TAs will go around the room taking attendance at the beginning of the class. If you are more than 5 min. late, please do not enter the classroom.