2001 - 2002
TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Telecommunications Laboratory
Title
83800
Basic Analog Circuits- I
8308021
Basic Analog Circuits- II
83702
Communication Circuits
& Modules
83703
RF-ASIC Design
83731
Mixed-Mode
Communication Circuits
& Modules
83791
Communication ICs
Development Seminar- I
83792
Communication ICs
Development
Seminar - II
Responsible:
Prof. Nikolay T. Tchamov
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Fall
Spring
Level
Basic
Basic
Intermediate
Intermediate
Accepted
as a PostGraduate
Course
Intermediate
Accepted
as a PostGraduate
Course
Mail Address:
P.O. Box 553
FIN-33101 TAMPERE, FINLAND
Lectures
336
hours
Exercises
230
hours
Credit Units
28...32
CU
12.12.2000
Description
Developing the basic skills for designing, simulating, implementing, and tuning of analog signal processing
units. OpAmps, Comparators, Diodes, and Transistors and their basic circuits for application. Circuitsimulation by PSpice.
Developing the basic skills for designing, simulating, implementing and tuning of analog signal processing
units. Circuit Models of OpAmps, Diodes and Transistors. Single transistor stages at low and high frequencies.
Multiple transistor stages. Cascodes. Differential Amplifies, OTA. Voltage and Current Amplifiers. Power
Amplifiers. Comparators, Filters, Oscillators. Circuits for Transmitters & Receivers.
High-Frequency Operation Principles, Parameters & Models, Analysis & Design of: Inductors & Transformers,
Microstrips & Transmission Lines. BJTs, HEMTs, HBTs etc. Small-Signal & Large-Signal Models, RFSimulators. Low-Noise Amplifiers. Power Amplifiers. Distributed Amplifiers. Current- Mode Circuits. Active
Filters. Mixers and Detectors, Oscillators, VCO/ICOs, PLL Circuits. Track/Hold, DAC and ADC. Sigma-Delta
Converters. High-speed Pulse/Logic Circuits. RF-Design Examples: Low-Noise-Amplifiers (LNA), VoltageControlled-Oscillators (VCO), Power Amplifiers (PowAmp), Track/Hold Amplifier (T&H). Basic RFMeasurements by Oscilloscope and Spectrum Analyser. Software in use: PSpice, Cadence, ADS.
Active and Passive Components of High-Frequency and High- Speed Integrated Circuits: Electrical and
Structural Specifics of the integrated Bipolar and MOS Transistors, Inductors, Capacitors, Resistors, Contact
Pads and Lines. Physical Structures and Electrical Models. Frequency, Transient, Temperature, Noise and
Tolerance Analysis and Design. Physical Design. Parasitics estimates. RF- Measurements on MicroscopeProbe-Station, GHz-range Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyser and Network Analyser. GHz- range design
examples: Low-Noise Amplifier, LC-VCO, Resonance-Ring VCO etc. Technologies in use: BiCMOS, Bipolar,
CMOS, SiGe and GaAs. Software in use: PSpice, CADENCE, ADS.
Signal Conditioning. RF V-I Converters. RF-Speed Sample/Hold & Track/Hold. High-Speed Comparators.
High-Speed Current-Mode Techniques. Current-Scaling & Differential-Current-Switch Digital-to-Analog
Converters. Applications in the All-Digital Receivers & Transmitters. Pipelined & Flash ADC. Oversampling
ADC: First & Second Order, Interpolative & Cascaded Modulators, Sinc, FIR & IIR Decimation Filters. HighPerformance ADCs. Design examples: GHz-range Track/Hold Amplifiers and Ultra-Fast Comparators.
Technologies in use: BiCMOS, Bipolar, CMOS, SiGe and GaAs.
Design and Build scaled PCB version of RF-ASIC for modern Receiver and Transmitter architectures.
Structure: Study, design, simulate, build and measure the printed circuit board (PCB) of a scaled down in
frequency new GHz-range circuit, for example of LNA, VCO/ICO, PowAmp, PLL, T/H etc.
Developing a RF-ASIC for modern Receiver and Transmitter architectures. Structure: Electrical and Physical
Design, send for fabrication and measure new RF-ASIC as a continuation of the PCB version developed in
part-I of the Seminar. It is recommended that right after this course, the students continue their tasks toward a
MSc. thesis works.
Street Address:
Hermiankatu 12 C
FIN-33720 TAMPERE, FINLAND
Phones:
(03) 365-3097
+358-40-582-5915
E-Mail: nikolay@cs.tut.fi
Fax: +358-3-365-3933