• Sankaran Aniruddhan

• CRC 302

Monday: 2pm to 3:15pm Tuesday: 3:30pm to 4:45pm Thursday: 5pm to 5:50pm

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

Login to moodle at https://coursesnew.iitm.ac.in/ to post questions and contact TAs and faculty.

1. Homeworks - 10% (approximately every other week)
2. End Semester Exam - 50%
3. 4 Projects - 40%

Lecture notes:

• All Lecture Notes in one file

Lecture videos:

1. Lecture 01 - Introduction to RF Systems lecture video
2. Lecture 02 - RF Transceiver; S-parameters lecture video
3. Lecture 03 - Review of MOSFET operation lecture video
4. Lecture 04 - Introduction to Noise in Circuits lecture video
5. Lecture 05 - Noise in tw0-port networks lecture video
6. Lecture 06 - Some simple examples of noise calculations lecture video
7. Lecture 07 - Noise Figure; Introduction to Low Noise Amplifiers lecture video
8. Lecture 08 - Common-gate Low Noise Amplifier lecture video
9. Lecture 09 - Noise Figure of Common-gate LNA lecture video
10. Lecture 10 - Common-source Low Noise Amplifier lecture video
11. Lecture 11 - Noise Figure of Common-source LNA lecture video
12. Lecture 12 - CS LNA Design methodology; Introduction to Nonlinearity lecture video
13. Lecture 13 - 1-dB Compression Point (P1dB); 3rd order Intercept Point (IIP3) lecture video

1. Q relation in Pi- and T- matches: pdf
2. Noise Figure of passive lossy systems: pdf
3. Introduction to S-parameters (Prof. Ali Niknejad's lecture notes at UC Berkeley): pdf
4. Link to 2013 class website

This course has 4 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) Due at 11:59pm on Sunday 01/03/2026
2. Project 2 on Mixer Design (pdf) Due at 11:59pm on Tuesday 31/03/2026
3. Project 3 on VCO + Divider Design (pdf) Due at 11:59pm on Tuesday 14/04/2026
4. Project 4 on PA Design (pdf) Due at 11:59pm on Tuesday 28/04/2026

Use the IBM 0.13µm CMOS model files on this page: (Model File page)

This course has several homework assignments. They will be posted below periodically. The solution should be submitted as a single pdf file on Moodle. You are expected to work on them on your own. You can approach the teaching assistants for clarifications and help.

1. Homework #1 on Noise Figure (pdf) Due at 11:59pm on Tuesday 24/03/2026

• 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