
Explore the basics of radio frequency circuits, from passive components and matching networks to filter design, across 20 kilohertz to 300 gigahertz for 5g relevance.
Explore why studying RF circuit design matters, outlining a complete system from digitization and mixing to amplification, filtering, and antenna transmission, and highlight high-frequency design challenges.
Explore how passive components, especially resistors, operate at high frequencies in compact RF environments and how fabrication and miniaturization affect performance. The lecture previews capacitor behavior in the next session.
Explore a transmission line on a BCB substrate, study how height shapes speed and impedance, and compute trace width and wavelength to achieve proper 50 ohms and matching.
Explore transmission line parameters to achieve impedance matching, minimize reflection, and maximize power transfer. Learn how substrate height, geometry, and frequency influence design, reflection coefficient, and standing wave ratio.
Apply Smith chart techniques to determine input impedance and reflection coefficient from a normalized impedance, then design a matching network by rotating on the Smith chart.
Explore the lumped matching network to achieve perfect impedance matching for a 50-ohm system at 2 ghz, using admittance circles to determine inductance and capacitance values.
Learn how RF filters use normalized coefficients, including Butterworth and Bishop Daly, to compute actual component values and design practical filter blocks.
learn how to perform frequency and impedance transformations to convert a normalized filter prototype into a real design, using formulas to calculate inductor and capacitor values.
The course provides primitive knowledge for students to pursue RF Circuit Design as a course or a research. The course gives an understanding about how basic passive components change their behavior at radio frequency due to high frequency signals and fabrication using VLSI Technology in less than an hour. It makes the students understand how to approach this field with varied exercises. The course has been designed in such a way which will help students understand the concepts through exercises and not through just theoretical concepts.
Researchers all around the world are working on the performance of analog and digital circuits at Radio frequency. Satellite Broadcasting, GPS, Remote sensing are some of the applications at this frequency. The basic blocks of receiver, transmitter, mixers, LNA, filters and oscillators all are designed to work at such a high frequency.
At Radio Frequency convention circuit behavior and principles do not apply. The course is designed to be completed in less than an hour. If you want to familiarize yourself with RF industry and don't know where to start, then this is the course for you.
The Course is divided into three sections:
· Section 1 deals with THE INTRODUCTION TO PASSIVE COMPONENTS
· Section 2 deals with Transmission Line Parameters And
· Section 3 deals with Filter Design