Educational guide 2023_24
Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación
Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Telecomunicación
 Subjects
  Microwave and Millimetre Wave Circuit Design and CAD
Subject Guide
IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
Subject Microwave and Millimetre Wave Circuit Design and CAD Code V05M145V01317
Study programme
Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Telecomunicación
Descriptors Total Cr. Choose Year Quadmester
5 Optional 2nd 1st
Teaching language
English
Prerequisites
Coordinator
Fernández Barciela, Mónica
E-mail monica.barciela@uvigo.es
Lecturers
Fernández Barciela, Mónica
Web http://moovi.uvigo.gal/
General description Communications systems are at the mercy of the available technology to fabricate their transceivers. To understand the complexities of modern communications transceivers, their performance requirements and limitations, especially in the microwave and mm-wave frequency bands, it is mandatory to have a closer look to their underlying electronics and fabrication methods. And this look requires not only a theoretical background in active devices and circuit design methodologies or fabrications methods, but most importantly, a practical background in circuit design, fabrication, measurement and performance evaluation. The student has already acquired this theoretical background through previous subjects.
The present subject aim to provide the student with some practical background by fully designing, fabricating in hybrid integrated technology and characterizing a circuit prototype, in fact one of the analogue building components of modern transceivers for working in the microwave bands (power amplifier, oscillator or mixer).
Most of the presential hours of the course and personal work of the student will be devoted to the design and fabrication of this prototype, in several stages that will be independently evaluated. Besides this practical work, some presential hours will be devoted to describe the design rules and methodologies of advanced transceiver circuit modules working in microwave and mm-wave bands. Among others, we may mention issues related to the design of efficient power amplifiers or the use of X-parameters to characterize and model these nonlinear components.
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