Communication Electronic Circuits 2016     EHB429E        CRN: 20881

Undergraduate Course (3 hours/week)     Schedule: Wed. 13:30 - 16:30  D1303

Prof. Dr. Melih PAZARCI

Course Outline: Spring 2016

Impedance Matching, Frequency Converters and Mixers, Linear RF Power Amplifiers; Class-A and B operations, High Efficiency Non-Linear Power Amplifiers; Voltage and Current Switching Class-D operation, Class-E and F operations, Stability of Amplifiers, PLL Circuits and Frequency Synthesizers

NOTE: Some topics may not be covered due to time limitations.

Text Book:  To be announced

Prerequisites: (Requirements for students who take the course)

1. A satisfactory level of English: students will be required to read a lot of notes and material in English; they should be able to comprehend the read material; classes will be conducted in English (not quasiEnglish), hence the students must also be able to understand spoken English. Although, all students must have and are assumed to have basic English skills, my experience shows that this assumption is false!
2. Elementary knowledge on circuits and electronics (the undergraduate course EHB335E Analog Electronic Circuits is sufficient  for this purpose)
3. Knowledge of PSpice and Matlab (students must know PSpice and basic Matlab; those that do not meet this requirement must learn PSpice and sufficient Matlab by the end of February! Learning Matlab is not hard and should not be a deterrent for avoding this course; you will not be required to write advanced or critical code in this course. If you have taken EHB335E, you already know a satisfactory level of PSpice).
4. This course is not recommended for 3rd year students.
5. This course and EHB430 are complementary courses. If you take both, it will be a good package for you.

Other:

 Attendance is required.

Your course grade will be calculated using your homework, midterm and final tests; homework requirement must be fullfilled to take the final! Blank, photocopy, or irrelevant homeworks do not count! Electronic submission of homeworks via email is possible however do not bring your files to your instructor with USB flash drives; use email or submit on a CD. E-homeworks must be submitted in ONE Acrobat pdf (preferred) or Word doc file (either but not both!); if program code submission is required, a second code file should be submitted).  

Instructor office hours will be announced after the term starts. Instructor may be reached @285 3504, Room 3109, or email: pazarci@itu.edu.tr

Vize Koşulu:

1) Ödevlerin yapılmış olması (4 adet),

2) En az bir yarıyıl sınavına girilmiş olması.

REFERENCES

1. Radio Frequency Circuit Design 2E, A. Davis, 2011 Wiley
2. RF Circuit Design, R. Li, 2009 Wiley
3. RF Electronics 2E, J. Hagen, 2009 Cambridge,
4. RF Circuit Design - Theory & Applications 2E, L.Reinhold, 2009 Prentice Hall
5. Solid State Radio Engineering, H.L. Krauss, C. W. Bostian, F. H. Raab, 1980 Wiley
6. M. Pazarcı, RadyoTV Sistemleri 2014 ders notları (see the associated web page for the course)
7. Analog Design and Simulation using OrCAD Capture and PSpice, D. Fitzpatrick, 2012 Newnes (for V16.x)
8. For synthesizers, see references for Phase Lock Systems (ELE608E)

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

You may find useful links to articles, software and examples at the end of Wikipedia articles (Warning: Do not use Wikipedia as your primary source of learning)

You may find relevant explanation video clips in Youtube (this may be very useful if you have reading problems)

Rev. Jan 24, 2016