Ludwig/Bretchko

RF Circuit Design
Theory and Applications

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,

2000

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 General Rules of Lectures

(1) All e-lecture notes will be available at:

http://cmbsd.cm.nctu.edu.tw/~kuolab/

(2) It is a must to enroll e-mail on the university course-selecting

system.

(3) Cheating in any exam definitely results in being flunked out.

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 RF Circuit Design – Theory and Applications

Course Contents
Chap 1. Introduction – Units, Components, Freq Spectrum, etc.
Chap 2. Transmission Line Analysis
Chap 3. The Smith Chart
Chap 4. Single- and Multiport Network
Chap 5. RF Filter Design
Chap 6. Active RF Components - Diodes, BJTs, FETs
Chap 7. Active RF Component Modeling
Chap 8. Matching and Biasing Networks
Chap 9. RF Transistor Amplifier Designs
Chap 10. Oscillators and Mixers

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 Prerequisites 02/21/2006

• Microelectronics (I) and (II)

• Basic Electromagnetics (I)

Score Evaluation
• Homework: 3 – 6 problems/chap, due one week after each chapter is
closed. Weighting = 1/3.
• Two examinations, Midterm and Final. Each has a weighting of 1/3.

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