
Discover AFIC solutions, a Milpitas-based RF IC design firm offering analog mixing, digital design, packaging, and RF training, with amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators on CMOS, SiGe, GaAs.
This lecture explains all the steps involved in designing an RF Chip.
Outline the RFIC design flow from fabrication through assembly, packaging, and die- and PCB-level testing, using spectrum analysis to verify RF and DC performance and meet specifications.
This lecture illustrates the concepts like Radio Frequency, IEEE Frequency Spectrum, High Frequency Effects, Wires at High Frequency, Resistance, Inductance, Capacitance, 50 Ohm Impedance Matching, Transmission Lines.
Explore how incident, reflected, and transmitted powers relate to impedance and matching in rf systems, using transmission line models, reflection coefficients, and standing waves.
Master transmission line concepts for impedance matching, including open and short reflections and standing waves, and compare RF technologies like CMOS and gallium arsenide for high-performance devices.
This lecture describes the importance of the units dB and dBm.
This lecture explains the importance of S-parameters and their application.
This lecture describes the importance of Smith Charts and their importance.
Master rf ic fabrication, including pattern development, aging, chemical testing, and plasma etching. Explore oxide insulation, diffusion, transistor and mos formation, wafer-level testing, final testing, and packaging.
Explore CMOS RF design modelling Part I, focusing on transistor-level models, active and passive devices, input matching, and the role of device-level choices in achieving high-performance radio frequency circuits.
Describe advanced cmos rf design modeling of inductors, capacitors, and resistors, highlighting parasitics, substrate losses, and quality factor, and compare inductor shapes for best performance.
Design power amplifiers for RF ICs by analyzing matching networks, biasing, and efficiency across linear and nonlinear regimes, with class B/AB/C architectures and practical load and harmonic considerations.
In this course you will see the insights of the RF World! Let's briefly summarize what all you will learn in this course. We will start off with the Introduction to Radio Frequency and Integrated Circuits at wireless( RF) frequencies. We will also discuss the applications of RFICs at a system level.
You will initially learn about various RF parameters like S- parameters, VSWR, Reflection Coefficient, etc. and also understand the analysis of RF circuits and transmission lines using Smith Charts and Equations. Alongside, we will also teach you about some fundamentals like impedance matching and power measurement in decibels.
We will then glance through the captivating Integrated Circuit Fabrication process and the various steps, materials, and techniques involved in IC Fabrication. You will also learn about Foundries and PDKs and why they are important.
We will briefly look at the concept of VLSI Technology and how VLSI is associated with RFIC designing. Later, we will see the basics of CMOS and how CMOS is used in RF Design. Finally, you will learn about some interesting circuit designs like the RF Power Amplifier (PA) and the various RF power amplifier architectures and topologies.
This course will enhance your knowledge about Radio Frequency Design which is applied in most of the jobs available in top Wireless and Telecommunication based companies designing wireless products.
We hope you enjoy this course!!!