EE 283 - Winter 2007

Lecture 1 & 2

reference material for lectures 1 & 2

Lecture 3

matlab polar plot example (may help with homework)

Impedance matching design example
Homework Problem Set #2
Lecture 4

Reference material

note: homework and tests will only touch on coupled resonator filter concepts

Required reading: Please read sections I and II in the attached paper on mixed-mode s-parameters:

Bockelman 1997

Cadence project area is now available. Please view video of how to set up your work area (it is about 10 min., 60 Mbytes):

video on work area setup and quick spectre simulation
note: Follow instructions in video. For subsequent sessions, you will need to go to your work area directory and execute the following commands:

source cadence.rc
icfb &
to start the tools each time.

Lecture 6 (From Thurs. Feb 15)
Although we looked at a lumped-element implementation in class, the following references look at coupled-inductor realizations:

Gan and Wong RFIC 2006 - use mixed mode s-parameters for inductive balun design
John Long 2000 silicon balun design principles
John Long 2005 use of coupled inductors in RF IC design

Lecture 7
Required Reading on Noise theory

Haus1960 - Noise theory of linear two-ports. Noise equivalent, minimum noise figure, noise figure dependence on source impedance.

Wedge1991 - Bosma's theorem on the thermal noise properties of passive multiport networks

Scholten2003 - Sections I and III thermal noise properties of MOS devices

Lecture 8 noise correlation matrices and stability

Traditionally (and in spectre currently) K-factor analysis is provided to ensure the magnitude of reflection coefficients looking into a two-port are less than 1, when the loads have reflection magnitudes less than 1. If K>1 and B1>0 the above condition is assured. K-factor is being replaced by a single-parameter method, "mu", available in ADS simulator currently. Bianco2001 et. al. have what they say is a simple proof for mu; this is for your interest.
Please read Stublel94where a rigorous method for stability is developed applicable for high frequency circuits and examples are given. Example circuits that satisfy K-factor stability criterion but clearly unstable are shown.

StrubelWorkshop94 has more detail and examples if you are interested in probing further.

Lecture 9 stability and feedback LNA design (please see slide 36 for an important addition since the class on the analysis).
LNA design excercise including updated procedure. We can use simulation of FET h12 directly to set the ratio k/n. h12 is available after an s-parameter simulation.

Long2003 - Transformer feedback implementation in 180 nm CMOS
simulation setup notes - Information on starting cells in ee283 library, accessing simulator state files to help get started.

Lecture 10

Gupta1992 Mason's unilateral gain figure of merit
PozarStabilityCircles1998 Section from the book Microwave Engineering by Pozar on stability circles

Extra office hours to be held Thursday, March 15 at 6 PM

Last updated 3/13/2007

General Class Information

Midterm - Takehome Feb 20, return Feb 27
Final - Tuesday, March 20 4-5:30 PM

Lecture times:

Tuesdays, 4:00-5:45 PM
Jack Baskin Engineering Building, Room 169

Instructor:

Name: Tom McKay (tgmckay@soe.ucsc.edu)

Office: 251

Instructor Office Hours:

Extra office hours to be held Thursday, March 15 at 6 PM