EE 540L - RF and Microwave Engineering Laboratory
Professor: Madhu S. Gupta
Syllabus
Instructor
Prof. Madhu S. Gupta
Room 403C, Engineering Building
Telephone (619) 594-7015
email mgupta@mail.sdsu.edu
Schedule
Class: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., Room E306D
Final Examination: Monday, December 13, 2004, 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Midterm : Around the third week of October
Pre-requisites
1. Undergraduate electromagnetic field theory (EE 340)
2. Undergraduate transmission lines (EE 450)
3. Concurrent or Prior enrollment in microwave engineering (EE 540) Material
in pre-requisite courses is indispensable for following the course material
Textbook
SDSU Faculty, Microwave Engineering Laboratory Manual, (Montezuma Press,
1998)
Purpose
The objectives of the course includes the following:
1. Familiarization with experimental techniques used for electronic circuits and
devices
in the RF and microwave frequency region.
2. Familiarization with network and signal analysis methods used for
characterization of
RF circuits and RF signals in frequency domain.
3. Completion of a design project, involving component specification, circuit
design and
synthesis, planar implementation, fabrication, evaluation, and debugging steps.
Work Load
1. Weekly reading, problem solving, lab work, data recording, and reporting
results
2. Project Work – from conception to delivery of prototype and report.
3. Examinations – midterm and final.
Grading
Letter grades, based on the composite performance on each of the following
factors.
Weekly Labs - 40%.
Project work - 40%.
Exams - 20%.
Policies
1. No assistance may be given or received in completing the examination.
2. All examinations open book.
3. No make-up examinations.
Major Topics:
First Half of the semester:
1. Review of scattering parameters and network analysis.
2. One-port measurements.
3. Design and measurement of attenuators, filters, and phase-shiftres.
4. Design of RF matching circuits.
5. Power Dividers, Couplers, and Hybrid Junctions.
6. Microstrip matching circuit design and inteconnects.
7. Time domain response of filters and other two-ports
Propagation in ferrites and ferrite-loaded transmission lines
Isolators, phase-shifters, and circulators.
Second half of the semester:
1. Project selection and definition through completion.
2. Project report – written and presented.