AP7009 RF SYSTEM DESIGN

AP7009 RF SYSTEM DESIGN

UNIT I            RF ISSUES 9 Importance of RF design- Electromagnetic spectrum, RF behavior of passive components, chip components and circuit board considerations, scattering parameters, smith chart and applications. 

UNIT II    RF FILTER DESIGN

Overview, Basic resonator and filter configuration, special filter realizations, smith chart based filter design, coupled filter. 

UNIT III         ACTIVE RF COMPONENTS AND APPLICATIONS

RF diodes, BJT, RF FET’S, High electron mobility transistors, matching and biasing networksimpedance matching using discrete components, microstripline matching networks, amplifier classes of operation and biasing networks. 

UNIT IV RF AMPLIFIER DESIGNS

Characteristics, amplifier power relations, stability considerations, constant gain circles, constant VSWR circles, low noise circles broadband, high power and multistage amplifiers. 

UNIT V  OSCILLATORS, MIXERS & APPLICATIONS

Basic oscillator model, High Frequency oscillator configuration, basic characteristic of mixers, wireless synthesizers, phase locked loops, detector and demodulator circuits. 

REFERENCES: 

1. Reinhold Ludwig and Powel  Bretchko, RF Circuit Design –Theory and Applications, Pearson Education Asia, First Edition, 2001. 

2. Joseph. J. Carr, Secrets of RF Circuit Design , McGraw Hill Publishers, Third Edition, 2000. 

3. Mathew M. Radmanesh, Radio Frequency & Microwave Electronics, Pearson Education Asia, Second Edition, 2002. 

4. Ulrich L. Rohde and David P. NewKirk, RF / Microwave Circuit Design, John Wiley & Sons USA 2000. 

5. Roland E. Best, Phase - Locked Loops: Design, simulation and applications, McGraw Hill Publishers 5TH edition 2003.