Administration
- Syllabus
- The gradebook is maintained on Sakai
- The final will take place at the normal, scheduled time
- The weekly schedule is as below
| Meeting | Time | Location |
| Lecture | 2:30-3:45 M/W | Discord |
| Office Hours | 2:00-3:00 F | Discord |
Labs and Design Projects
- Example Lab Notebook for this Example Lab. You will submit a lab notebook with each lab.
- Design Project 1 Report Template [docx]
- Design Project 2 Report Template [docx]
- Lab notebooks will be maintained individually. I recommend you try using Evernote. Submit exported notebooks on Sakai by midnight on Mondays.
- Warm-up problems are done individually, and they are due at the same time as lab notebooks. They must be self-graded before the lecture two days after they are due. Solutions are posted on Sakai and scheduled for release after warm-ups are due.
| Due | Manual | Lab Name |
| 9/1 | Lab 01 | Welcome to ltSpice |
| 9/11 | Lab 02 | Transmission Line Time Responses |
| 9/23 | Lab 03 | Calibration and De-Embedding |
| 10/2 | DP1 | Design 1: Filter |
| 10/20 | Lab ?? | Near Field Measurements (maybe) |
| 10/27 | Lab 04 | Antenna Characterization |
| 11/3 | Lab 05 | Amplifier Linearity |
| 11/24 | DP2 | Design 2: Communication System |
Resources
Course Notes
- Mike Perrott's 2005 RF Course Notes from MIT
- Ali Niknejad's "Introduction to RF" Lecture Notes from Berkeley
- Ali Niknejad's "Advanced RF" Lecture Notes from Berkeley
Derivations
- Solution to the Telegrapher Equation from UMBC
- Complex Analysis and Conformal Maps from UMN
- Lines of Resistance and Reactance on Smith Chart from UIUC
- Stability Circles and Rollett Stability Factor from Clive Poole
- Field around a Hertzian Dipole from U Texas, Leads to Dipole Impedance
Smith Charts
- A Blank Smith Chart and another with impedance and admittance
- SimSmith, a Smith Chart Simulator
- Online Smith Chart and Impedance Match Calculator
Vector Network Analyzers
- Tips and Tricks for Calibrating VNAs mirrored by Keysight
- White Paper About VNA Calibration and Dispersion from Anritsu
Propagation
Other
- w2aew Youtube channel with videos on many common pieces of test equipment.
- Introduction to antennas from antenna-theory.com
- Mixer basics from Digikey
- Scikit-RF Plotting Package for S-Parameter Data
Lecture Notes, Handouts, Readings
| # | Resources | Title | References |
| 01 | Class Slides | Welcome to RF! | |
| 02 | Class Slides | Introduction to Transmission Lines | Lee 2.3-4 |
| 03 | Class Slides | Characteristic Impedance, Loss and Termination | Lee 2.5, 2.7 |
| 04 | Class Slides | Sinusoids in Transmission Lines | Lee 2.6, video |
| 05 | Class Slides | Impedance Transformation and the Smith Chart | Lee 3.2 |
| 06 | SEE 05 | Smith Chart Practice | Lee 3.2 |
| 07 | Class Slides | Impedance Matching Networks 1 | Lee 4.2 |
| 08 | Class Slides | Impedance Matching Networks 2 | Lee 4.3 |
| 09 | Class Slides | Filter Design | Lee 22.1 |
| 10 | Class Slides | S Parameters | Lee 3.3 |
| 11 | Class Slides | Measuring S Parameters | Lee 8.4-5 |
| 12 | Class Slides | Power Flow | Lee 3.3 |
| 13 | Class Slides | Stability | Lee 12.7 |
| MIDTERM IN CLASS ON 10/7 | |||
| 14 | Class Slides | Cancelled Class | video |
| 15 | Class Slides | Maxwell Review + Near Field Measurements | Perrott Notes 3 |
| 16 | Class Slides | Why Radiation? Types of Antennas | Lee 21.1, 21.6-7 |
| 17 | Class Slides | Near and Far Fields, Radiation Patterns, Link Budgets | Lee 21.2-3 |
| 18 | Class | Antenna Review and Practice | |
| 19 | Class Slides | Linearity in Communication Systems I | Niknejad Notes |
| 20 | Class Slides | More Linearity in Communication Systems | Niknejad Notes |
| 21 | Class Slides | Noise Sources, Noise Temperature | Niknejad Notes |
| 22 | Class Slides | Noise in Communication Systems | Niknejad Notes |
| 23 | Class Slides | Mixers, Spectrum Analyzers | Digikey Notes |
| 24 | Class Slides | Modulation and Communication System Examples | Perrott Notes |
| 25 | Class Slides | Board Layout Techniques and Practices | |
| 26 | Class Slides | Guest Lecture on Wireless Propagtion Models | |
| SYNCHRONOUS FINAL ON 12/2 |