• Sankaran Aniruddhan

• Online

• Tuesday: 4pm to 5:15pm
• Thursday: 4pm to 5:15pm
• Alternate Fridays: 4pm to 5:15pm

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.

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1. Mid Term Exam - 10%
2. End Semester Exam - 40%
3. Assignments - 50%

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
14. Lecture 14 - LNA IIP3; IIP3 of cascaded systems lecture video
15. Lecture 15 - Sensitivity of a receiver; Series and Parallel resonance lecture video
16. Lecture 16 - L-match networks lecture video
17. Lecture 17 - Pi-match networks; Tapped-capacitor match lecture video
18. Lecture 18 - NF of lossy blocks; Introduction to mixers lecture video
19. Lecture 19 - Active gilbert-cell mixers lecture video
20. Lecture 20 - Gilbert-cell mixer with active load; double-balanced mixer lecture video
21. Lecture 21 - Design considerations of Gilbert-cell mixer; Introduction to mixer noise analysis lecture video
22. Lecture 22 - Noise folding in mixers; transconductor and switch noise lecture video
23. Lecture 23 - Image problem in heterodyne receivers; Hartley and Weaver image-reject receivers lecture video
24. Lecture 24 - Introduction to oscillators lecture video
25. Lecture 25 - Cross-coupled LC oscillator lecture video
26. Lecture 26 - Complementary cross-coupled LC oscillator; Voltage controlled oscillators lecture video
27. Lecture 27 - Tuning in VCOs; IQ generation lecture video
28. Lecture 28 - Quadrature VCOs; Noise in oscillators lecture video
29. Lecture 29 - Introduction to Phase Noise in Oscillators; LTI Models lecture video
30. Lecture 30 - LTV model of phase noise lecture video
31. Lecture 31 - CMOS Power Amplifiers lecture video
32. Lecture 32 - Class-A CMOS Power Amplifier lecture video
33. Lecture 33 - Linearity of CMOS Power Amplifier lecture video
34. Lecture 34 - CMOS inverter based PA; Noise cancelling LNA; Gain boosted CGLNA lecture video
35. Lecture 35 - Capacitive cross coupled gain boosted CGLNA; Introduction to RF Layout lecture video
36. Lecture 36 - Introduction Spiral inductors; Overview of Passive Mixers lecture video
37. Lecture 37 - Receiver RF System calculations example (802.11ag) 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.

Use the TSMC 0.18µm 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.

• 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