EE8337: Analog Circuits for Wired/Wireless Communications

Spring 2019

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Course Material

• Handout 1 (pdf)
• Grading: Midterm I 25%, Final 25%, Homework 15%, Interim project report 10%, Final project report 25%.
• Book errata (pdf)

Midterms

• Midterm 1 March13th (in class)
• Final take home (test handed out on Sunday May 12^th 5pm via email and to be returned in my office on Monday May 13^th by 5pm) (Course material : all the material covered in class)

Class notes & slides

• Chapter 1 Introduction to wireless (1st set of slides. password protected)
• Additional intro to wireless (2^nd set of slides. Password protected)
• Chapter 2 Nonlinearity, noise, dynamic range (3^rd set of slides, Password protected)
• Chapter 3 (Modulation ++) (4^th set of slides, Password protected)
• Chapter 4 (Transceiver architecture)(5^th set of slides, Password protected)
• Sliding IF matlab + Simulink files (Simulink, matlab, password protected)
• Using matlab pwelch & scaling correctly (Hanspeter Schmid) (link)
• 802.11a spur table (excel, password protected)
• Chapter 5 (LNA)(6^th set of slides, Password protected)
• Chapter 6 (Mixer) (7^th set of slides, Password protected)
• N-path mixers review (paper CICC 2017)
• N-path mixers review (slides CICC 2017)
• Chapter 7 Passives (9^th set of slides, password protected)
• Chapter 8 Oscillators (10^th set of slides, password protected)
• Chapter 9 PLL (11^th set of slides, password protected)

Homework

• HW #1, Due Friday Feb 1^st (Do problems 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5)
• Solutions to HW#1 (Password protected)
• HW #2, Due Friday Feb 8^th (Do problems 2.11, 2.19, 2.21, 2.23)
• HW #3, Due Friday Mar 1^st (Do problem 3.1, 3.5, 3.6)
• Solutions to problems in chapter 3(Password protected)
• HW #4 Due Friday Mar 8^th (Do problems 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.7)
• HW #5 Due Friday Apr 12^th (Do problems 6.2, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7)

Project

• Project handout (password protected)
• Inductor sweep done is Asitic (excel,password protected)
• 802.11a Circuits Papers (pdf, password_protected)
• Good link to 802.11a. PHY specs (pdf)
• Cadence
• Follow the directions in this Cadence tutorial for EE8337
• There is another cadence tutorial on the ECE website that has been setup for Prof. Kim's class. If you run into problems please check this one out as well.
• Introduction to Spectre RF (Prof. S. Bibyk notes from OSU)
• Cadence SpectreRF Appnotes & Tutorials
• LNA design
• LNA Design using SpectreRF (Prof. M. Rodwell link at UCSB)
• Simulation of LNA Tutorial (By Rash Ramzan)
• Mixer design
• Gilbert Mixer Simulation Tutorial (By Rashad Ramzan)
• List of WLAN papers
• Final project report expectations and additional information (pdf)

802.11a

• Download the IEEE 802.11a wireless standard from here
• http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.11.html
• Introduction to OFDM
• Martin Kenney's weblog on the pervasiveness of OFDM (Good introduction to OFDM)
• OFDM tutorials (look at the interactive OFDM tutorial by Andrew McCormick)
• Some companies designing and developing 802.11a products
• Atheros, Broadcom, Bermai, Radiata, Intersil, RFMD, Intel

• Techniques to simulate IIP2 and IIP3 (from Designers Guide)
• Inductor sweep for 0.18u CMOS using Asitic (Excel, Password Protected)
• Other fabrication process
• TSMC 0.18u CMOS (process parameters including process variations) (courtesy Prof. P. Kinget, Columbia University)

Streaming Audio & Video

• Streaming audio: Unite provides same-day access downloadble audio podcasts for on-campus students
• Streaming video: Unite students can access taped versions of this class can be viewed on/off campus and via modem connections. 

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Other RF/Wireless course websites

• Ali Niknejad's (Berkeley) Integrated Circuits for Communications course
• Peter Kinget's (Columbia) Advanced Communication Circuits course
• Hamid Rategh (Stanford) CMOS RF Integrated Circuit Design course
• Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio (Texas A&M) RF Communications Circuits and Systems course
• Patrick Yue (USSB) CMOS RFIC Design course

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Other Relevant Books

General references

• Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications
  Editors: Asad A. Abidi, Paul R. Gray, and Robert G. Meyer, IEEE Press, 1998
• Planar Microwave Engineering
  T. H. Lee, Cambridge Academic Press 2004
• Electromagnetics for High-Speed Analog and Digital Communication Circuits
  Ali M. Niknejad, Cambridge Academic Press 2007
• Design of Integrated Circuits for Optical Communications
  B. Razavi, McGraw Hill, 2003
• Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
  John Rogers and Calvin Plett, Artech House 2003
• Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Technologies
  Frank Ellinger, Springer 2006
• Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies
  Mahommed Ismail and Delia Rodriguez de Llera Gonzalez, Springer 2006
• RF System Design of Tranceivers for Wireless Communications
  Qizheng Gu, Springer 2005
• CMOS Wireless Transceiver design
  J. Crols and M. Steyaert, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997
• Modern Receiver Front-Ends: Systems
  J. Laskar, B. Matinpour, S. Chakraborty, Circuits, and Integration, Wiley, 2004
• Practical RF System Design
  W. F. Egan, Wiley, 2003
• RF Design Guide: Systems, Circuits, and Equations
  Peter Vizmuller, Artech House 1995

PLL & Synthesizers

• Communications Receivers: Principles and Design,
  U. Rohde, J. Whitaker, and T. Bucher, McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 1996
• Phased Locked Loops
  Ronald E. Best, McGraw-Hill 2007
• Phaselock Techniques
  Flyod M. Gardner, Wiley-Interscience 2005
• Phaselock Basics
  William F. Egan, Wiley-IEEE Press 2007
• Monolithic Phase-Locked Loops and Clock Recovery Circuits: Theory and Design
  Editor: B. Razavi, Wiley-IEEE Press1996
• Phase-Locking in High-Performance Systems: From Devices to Architectures
  Editor: B. Razavi, Wiley-IEEE Press 2003

Power Amplifiers

• RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (2nd edition)
  Steve Cripps, Artech House 2006
• High Linearity RF Amplifier Design
  Peter B. Kenington, Artech House 2000
• RF Power Amplifiers
  Mihai Albulet, Noble Publishing Associates 2001

Software Defined Radios

• RF and Baseband Techniques for Software Defined Radio
  Peter B. Kennington, Artech House, 2005

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Other Relevant websites

• Math software tools 
• Mathcad: everyday math tool. 
• Student version available. (worth investing in)
• Useful for overall circuit design and documentation. Also does limited symbolic manipulations. 
• Matlab: numerical and signal processing simulation tool 
• Student version available
• Simulink : block diagram based front-end to matlab. Extremely powerful. Worth using.
• Matlab primer available here
• LiveMath: good symbolic manipulation software. Helps avoid simple mistakes.
• Student version available.
• Circuit simulation (HSPICE: Available in IT Labs as well, Look at HSPICE FAQ)
  HSPICE is general purpose SPICE variant.
• HSPICE manual in PDF format (available in /soft/hspice98/doc on IT workstations)
• SPICE 2G6 manual (early version of Berkeley SPICE)
• Cadence help files
• Switched-capacitor simulations in Cadence
• Serenade contains Harmonica and Symphony (from www.ansoft.com)
• Filter design software (Filter Solutions from www.nuhertz.com)
• Smithchart software (Use the downloads link) (Help file is in german. But the program is easy and intuitive)

Bluetooth sites

• Main Bluetooth site (www.bluetooth.com)
• Specifications from this site (Bluetooth specification)
• Palo Wireless (Bluetooth page)
• Atmel (home) / Temic Semiconductors (home) (Bluetooth products)
• Siliconwave (home) (Bluetooth products)
• Cambridge Silicon Radio (Bluetooth products)
• Lucent (Agere) (Lucent Bluetooth products)
• Ericsson (Ericsson Bluetooth products)
• Philsar (Philsar Bluetooth products)
• Good bluetooth site (www.business.com/../bluetooth)
• other useful sites

UWB Sites

• Most relevant UWB sites
• Multi-band OFDM alliance
• Multi-Band OFDM draft specification (look at the latest version Nov 2003 03/268r2)
  Other presentations and papers are useful too.
• RFIC Ultra-wideband workshop (focus on papers from Carl Panasik-TI and Prof Brodersen)
• Other ultra-wideband relevant sites
• IEEE 802.15 TG3a  (IEEE standards working group)
• Ultra-wideband Planet (good commercial information)
• UWB Insider (better commercial information)
• Ultra-wideband working group
• FCC Part 15

Usefull VLSI Links

• FAQ from comp.lsi.cad
• SMASH Demos
• Other VLSI links