ECE 588
Microwave Engineering II: Active Circuit Design
Spring
Required Course:
No
Course Level
Graduate
Units
3
Prerequisite(s)
Graduate standing
Course Texts
Microwave and RF Design: A System Approach, Michael Steer, SciTech Publishing.
Suggested text: Microwave Transistor Amplifiers 2nd Edition, Guillermo Gonzales, Prentice-Hall, 1997.
Schedule
150 minutes lecture per week, 3 open-schedule laboratory sessions per semester
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Course Description
Planar active microwave circuits, diode and transistor characteristics, mixers, amps, oscillators, and frequency multipliers. Students will design circuits with CAD tools, fabricate in clean room, and measure performance in the lab. Graduate-level requirements include extra problems involving more challenging concepts and in-depth knowledge of the material.