RF Circuit Design (Linear): S-Parameters, Smith Chart, Passive Components, LNA's
Courses covering this topic provide circuit-level designers with the fundamental concepts needed to work effectively with high frequency electronics. Participants gain analytical, graphical, and computer-aided techniques to analyze and optimize RF circuits in practical situations. The courses address linear active circuit design, focusing on stability, bandwidth, and noise considerations.
| 001 | Applied RF Techniques I This is the original five day version of the linear circuits topic. This course provides a brief review of complex numbers, then moves on to complex impedances, filter design, sparameters, the smith chart and linear active circuit design. The course also includes a discussion of CAD techniques as well as new four port s parameters. Course 001-4280:Oct 18-Oct 22, 2010: Greenbelt, MD Presented by Bob Froelich Register by 9/13/2010 and pay $1995, otherwise pay $2195 |
| 059 | RF Fundamentals This is a condensed version of the linear circuits topic. Most of the topics from the five day version are covered, but much less time is devoted to each topic. This course is ideally suited to professionals who need to be brought up to speed in RF and higher frequency design techniques, but who are not able to attend the five day version of the course. Course 059-4357:Nov 15-Nov 19, 2010: Web Classroom, WebEx Presented by Bob Froelich Register by 11/8/2010 and pay $449, otherwise pay $495 |
| 112 | Wireless Circuits, Systems and Test Fundamentals This course includes approximately two days of coverage on the subject of RF linear circuit design. The course then moves on to system-level design and testing. |
| 005 | RF and Microwave Filter Design with EM Simulation This course is devoted to the fundamentals of practical filter design for RF and microwave systems. The core material is a universal procedure for narrow band filter design that can be applied to virtually any filter technology or topology. The procedure is rooted in Dishal’s method with powerful extensions that include the port tuning concept, equal ripple optimization techniques, and efficient EM simulation. All the techniques presented can be implemented using commercially available CAD tools. |
| 183 | Semiconductor Device Physics for RF Design This course provides microwave circuit designers with an in-depth look at their “toolkit” of semiconductor devices. Starting with a brief look at quantum mechanics, the course develops a picture of how electrons behave in semiconductor materials. This is applied to functional descriptions of the basic semiconductor devices: the P-N junction, the bipolar transistor and the FET. Further material describes how properties of different semiconductor materials and the ability to create certain material structures leads to the large variety of modern devices, each with its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. A final section describes principals of semiconductor fabrication and how limitations in materials and fabrication lead to limitations in performance and repeatability of microwave devices. |
| 069 | Balanced Circuits for Wireless Applications This industry-unique one-day short course demonstrates how to use mixed-mode and four-port s-parameters to characterize balanced and differential circuits, CMRR, crosstalk, and mode conversions at RF/microwave frequencies. S-parameter theory and test equipment revolutionized RF/MW circuit design and measurements three decades ago. However, only recent technology has enabled the direct measurement and application of s-parameters to balanced analog/IF/RF/microwave circuits and systems. |
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