Educational guide 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría 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. Design of Microwave linear amplifiers.	a. Design of bias and stabilization networks. b. Stability circles. Power gain circles. Noise circles. c. Amplifier design for maximum transducer gain. d. Low Noise amplifier design. e. Broadband amplifier design.
4. RF and Microwave power amplifier design.	a. Operating Classes. b. Load-line and power contours. b. Design for maximum output power. c. Linearity and energy efficiency.
5. Design of frequency converters.	Modular design of frequency converters.
6. Frequency Synthesizers	a. Synthesizers based on PLLs. b. Direct digital synthesis.
8. Photonics	a. Semiconductors optical properties. b. Fabry-Perot lasers and DFB. c. Photodetectors. Static and dynamic regime. d. Electro-optic and electro-absorbing modulators.