Monolithic Microwave IC Design - Seminar / Kurs von Universität Ulm

• General overview of monolithic microwave IC (MMIC) design techniques
• MMIC design tools and models
• Substrate properties, packaging parasitics, and their impact on MMIC design
• Fundamental building blocks:   
  • Amplifiers (low-noise, wideband, power)
  • Artificial transmission lines and distributed circuit topologies
  • Mixers
  • Oscillators
  • Frequency multipliers and dividers
  • Phase shifters and vector modulators

Students recognize fundamental requirements of microwave/millimeter-wave communication systems. They review and analyze common circuit concepts and topologies, and identify those which meet the requirements. They then synthesize circuits to meet a set of requirements, and assess their functional performance using computer aided design tools, compare their results with the requirements, leading to circuit optimization.

Requirement is a first academic degree.

1. Principles of Analog Circuit Design
2. Principles of Radio Frequency Engineering
3. Fundamental knowledge of transistor function (pHEMT, MOSFET, BJT)