Advanced RF Integrated Circuits

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This course will discuss the design of silicon-based radio-frequency integrated circuits for next-generation wireless communications and sensing, focusing on theoretical and practical design techniques from architecture down to transistor-level circuit design. The topics are 1) modern RF systems and applications, 3) opportunities and challenges of mmWave technologies, 2) wireless transceiver architecture, 3) high-frequency modeling of active and passive devices for RFIC in silicon, 4) design principles of RF functional blocks such as low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators, 5) mmWave phased arrays, 6) utilization of simulation/design software for IC implementation and simulation based on a CMOS PDK,