High Speed Communication Circuits and Systems
Lecture Notes
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 LEC #  | 
 TOPICS  | 
 FILES  | 
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 1  | 
 Overview of Course  | 
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 2  | 
 Transmission Line Theory  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 3  | 
 S-parameters and Impedance Transformers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 4  | 
 Generalized Reflection Coefficient, Smith Chart, Passives  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 5  | 
 High Speed Broadband Amplifiers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 Enhancement of Broadband Amplifiers, Narrowband Amplifiers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 7  | 
 Noise Modeling in Amplifiers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 Noise Figure, Impact of Amplifier Nonlinearities  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 9  | 
 Low Noise Amplifiers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 Mixers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 Voltage Controlled Oscillators  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 12  | 
 Noise in Voltage Controlled Oscillators  | 
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 High Speed Digital Logic  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 14  | 
 High Speed Frequency Dividers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 Integer-N Frequency Synthesizers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 Noise in Integer-N Frequency Synthesizers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 Advanced Frequency Synthesizers  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 18  | 
 Design and Simulation of Synthesizers  | 
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 Basics of Wireless Communication  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 20  | 
 Performance Measures of Wireless Communication  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 21  | 
 MSK Modulation and Clock and Data Recovery Circuits  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 22  | 
 Guest Lecture by Gu-Yeon Wei, Harvard University: Low-Power High-Speed Links  | 
 (PDF)  | 
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 23  | 
 Guest Lecture: Statistical Electronics  | 
 
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 24  | 
 Guest Lecture by Analog Devices: RF Power Amplifiers  | 
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 25  | 
 Guest Lecture: A 1.6 Gb/s/pair Electromagnetically Coupled Multidrop Bus Using Pulse-Based Modulated Signaling  | 
 
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 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)
