High Speed Communication Circuits and Systems

Lecture Notes

LEC #

TOPICS

FILES

1

Overview of Course

(PDF - 2.7MB)

2

Transmission Line Theory

(PDF)

3

S-parameters and Impedance Transformers

(PDF)

4

Generalized Reflection Coefficient, Smith Chart, Passives

(PDF)

5

High Speed Broadband Amplifiers

(PDF)

6

Enhancement of Broadband Amplifiers, Narrowband Amplifiers

(PDF)

7

Noise Modeling in Amplifiers

(PDF)

8

Noise Figure, Impact of Amplifier Nonlinearities

(PDF)

9

Low Noise Amplifiers

(PDF)

10

Mixers

(PDF)

11

Voltage Controlled Oscillators

(PDF)

12

Noise in Voltage Controlled Oscillators

(PDF - 1.2MB)

13

High Speed Digital Logic

(PDF)

14

High Speed Frequency Dividers

(PDF)

15

Integer-N Frequency Synthesizers

(PDF)

16

Noise in Integer-N Frequency Synthesizers

(PDF)

17

Advanced Frequency Synthesizers

(PDF)

18

Design and Simulation of Synthesizers

(PDF - 1.5MB)

19

Basics of Wireless Communication

(PDF)

20

Performance Measures of Wireless Communication

(PDF)

21

MSK Modulation and Clock and Data Recovery Circuits

(PDF)

22

Guest Lecture by Gu-Yeon Wei, Harvard University: Low-Power High-Speed Links

(PDF)

23

Guest Lecture: Statistical Electronics

 

24

Guest Lecture by Analog Devices: RF Power Amplifiers

(PDF - 1.2MB)

25

Guest Lecture: A 1.6 Gb/s/pair Electromagnetically Coupled Multidrop Bus Using Pulse-Based Modulated Signaling

 

26

Guest Lecture by Richard Schreier, Analog Devices:Lowpass and Bandpass Delta-Sigma Modulation

(PDF)

Assignments

  • Homework Assignment 1 (PDF)
  • Homework Assignment 2 (PDF)
  • Homework Assignment 3 (PDF)
  • Homework Assignment 4 (PDF)
  • Homework Assignment 5 (PDF)
  • Homework Assignment 6 (PDF)

 

Exams

Midterm Exam (PDF)

 

Projects

Project 1: Design of a High Speed Divide-by-32/33 Prescaler (PDF)

Project 2: GMSK Transceivers (PDF - 1.7 MB)