What you'll learn
- Understand RF fundamentals
- Understand RF terminology
- Work with transmission lines
- Have an understanding of mismatch and the importance of matching
- Understand the performance of passive devices at RF
- Work with passive devices at RF
- Have a basic understanding of active devices at RF
- Track down grounding and signal return issues
- Find relevant articles on the internet to fill in blanks in their knowledge
- Find online calculators to calculate RF parameters
Requirements
- The course aims to impart an intuitive understanding of the concepts involved, but there is a mathematical basis to most of the content and the student will need to be comfortable dealing with engineering mathematics.
Description
Radio Frequency (RF) covers the spectrum from 3 kHz up to 300 GHz. RF work has gained a reputation of being something of a “black art”. It is a fact that, in general, RF products will need to be tuned as simulation tools and models are not accurate enough to get to first pass success without tuning. However, a lot of issues occur needlessly from sloppy work and a lack of understanding of basic principles. This means that, in general, a lot of issues can be solved before they even occur. This requires that the basic principles of RF are understood and there is rigorous attention to detail in all phases of design and test.
This course is an introduction to RF for design engineers, test engineers and product engineers or anyone else who needs to work with RF or has an interest in the field of RF. The emphasis of the course will be on the practical aspect rather than the mathematical aspect. The aim is for engineers to obtain an intuitive understanding of the concepts to allow them to apply these concepts in their work.
The internet offers a lot of resources for the RF engineer and it is not the objective of this course to supplant the internet, but to offer a guide for the engineer to know what to look for and where to find it. Engineers who take this course should leave knowing the basics of RF design and test, what to look for on the internet and where to find the relevant articles and calculators to help them during their work.
Who this course is for:
- Engineers working with RF
- Engineers working on RF integrated circuits
- Design and layout engineers tasked with undertaking RF or high-speed digital board design
- Technicians and test engineers involved in test and debug using RF products
- Technical management needing an understanding of RF
- Anyone with an interest in RF
Instructor
- 3.8 Instructor Rating
- 54 Reviews
- 139 Students
- 2 Courses
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Dr Malcolm H. Smith is the director of AnalogueSmith (S) Pte Ltd - a Singapore based design house delivering RF and analogue centric solutions with focus on IoT sensor nodes. He has been working as an independent consultant in the semiconductor industry for over 4 years and has over 25 years industrial experience delivering mixed-signal, analogue, RFIC and RF solutions. Prior to becoming a consultant, he worked for over 9 years at Amalfi Semiconductor and, after RFMD purchased Amalfi Semiconductor, at RFMD on the design of CMOS power amplifiers and front-ends for cellular applications. He was the inventor of the output structure used on all Amalfi/RFMD CMOS PAs and was also the sole inventor of the method used to integrate the front-end switching in bulk CMOS for the World's first GSM/GPRS Tx Modules with integrated switch. He was also the lead of the group that designed a Band I WCDMA amplifier with the World leading Figure Of Merit (FOM) for a CMOS PA of 80. Dr. Smith was awarded the B.Sc (Hons) degree in Microelectronics from the University of Edinburgh, the M.Sc. from the University of Westminster and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Kent all in the UK. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the IET in the UK.
Ms Suriani Mohd Arsad is an IPC-Certified Interconnect Designer (CID) with more than 10 years of experience in the PCB industry. Suriani joined Wizlogix in 2012 as a PCB Design Engineer and is proficient in Cadence Allegro, Altium Designer, Mentor Graphics PADS, DownStream CAM350, GC-Prevue and GD-CAM. As a developer of PCB designs for the consumer electronics sector, Suriani has previously designed load boards, printer boards, daughter-cards, burn-in boards, flex/rigid boards, RF boards, wearable PCB designs and HDI. As a testament to her expert knowledge, Suriani is now an in-house trainer at Wizlogix, teaching Basic PCB Design, Advanced PCB Design and Gerber Techniques courses. She has also conducted customised training programmes such as the Fundamentals of PCB Design & Manufacturing for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.