Guia docente 2024_25 Escuela de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to analog circuit design for RF and Microwave transceivers for communications.	a. Communication systems transmitting at RF and microwave frequency bands. b. Semiconductor technologies and design techniques at the different frequency bands. c. Basic tools: S parameters and Impedance matching networks.
2. RF and Microwave passive circuits design.	Couplers, filters and resonators.
3. Microwave active circuits design Part I: Linear Amplifiers.	a. Bias and stabilisation networks. b. Circles of stability, power gain and noise. c. Design for maximum transducer gain. d. Design of low noise amplifiers. e. Design of broadband amplifiers.
4. RF and Microwave active circuits design Part II.	a. Power Amplifiers: classes of operation, linearity, dynamic loadline and power contours. Architectures for maximum efficiency. b. Frequency converters. c. Frequency synthesizers.
5. Photonics	a. Semiconductors optical properties. b. Fabry-Perot lasers and DFB. c. Photodetectors. Static and dynamic regime. d. Electro-optic and electro-absorbing modulators.