ECE 265DCommunication Circuits III
Direct conversion and IF up-conversion mixers, harmonic and spurious emissions, I/Q mismatch, LO leakage, receive/GPS band noise, harmonic and 4fmod suppression. Driver amplifiers, load-line, OIP3/ACPR, P1dB, Psat, PAE, in-band noise and distortion, out-of-band noise and emissions. VCO design, in-band and out-of-band phase noise. N-path filters. Diversity, MIMO, carrier aggregation and beamforming receiver and transmitter architectures.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “ECE 265A-B with a grade of B– or above; graduate standing.”