COURSE GOALS:

Designing, simulating a circuit from scratch is 10 % of the fun...The rest of the fun is to build the circuit and see it works... especially if it does something useful at the same time! It is goal of this class to introduce you to the communication electronics which I believe the most fun of it all as it covers anywhere from audio to RF to light frequencies, it encompasses everything you learned so far about analog design, digital design and more...

There is no official lab sessions for this class but there will be quite a bit of electronic design and building. You will build stuff on your own time. Usually projects will be sequential so it is important that you do not skip any of the projects. You will have to buy some of the tools such as soldering iron, small hand tools and a multi-meter. We will find appropriate budget parts supply house for these tools and it is your responsibility to go and buy them. So if you are ready for getting your hands dirty sign up for this class!

Instructor: Meric Ozcan

Room #: FENS 1043

Class Schedule: Wed: FENS G035(11:40-13:30) and Fri: FASS G022(12:40-13:30)

Office hrs: Wed: 15:30-17:30 and Fri: 13:30-14:30

Teaching Asst: Ihsan Cicek, FENS 2017, ihsanc@su.sabanciuniv.edu

Grading Policy:
Homeworks+Projects: 40 %
Midterm: 25 %
Final:35 %

There will be homeworks which will be question solving, there will be homeworks which will require you go and do some research, read and learn and write a report. Then more importantly -hopefully more fun!- there will be hardware building projects as we go along.

Prerequisities:

Minimum of EL202 knowledge is required. It is also assumed that you have taken ENS 211 (Signals) . In addition to these it is plus if you also have taken EL 303 (Analog Integrated Electronics), EL 306 (RF Design) and TE 303 (Int. to Communication Systems).

Course Outline

• Communication systems overview
• Transmitters, Transceivers, Modulation types, modulation circuits
• Receiver fundamentals, super-heterodyne receiver, demodulation circuits
• Resonant circuits, impedance transformations
• Impedance matching, L networks, PI and T networks, Smith Chart
• Nonlinear effects, total harmonic distortion
• RF and IF amplifiers, power amplifiers
• Mixers, active mixers, switching type mixers
• Oscillators, BJT and FET based, op-amp based, VCOs
• Noise characterization of systems
• Phase locked loops and applications, frequency synthesis
• New developments:Ultra-wide band radio, software radio

Suggested Text:

First two books are the ones we will follow closely in this class:

• Communication Circuits: Analysis and Design by Clarke and Hess Unfortunately this is out of print, but we will find copies for you.

• The Electronics of Radio by D. Rutledge. This is very good practical book and it will be available in the bookstore. It is not enough by itself for this class. Nevertheless you still will learn a lot of electronics from it so just buy it.

• The Design of CMOS Radio Frequency Circuits by Thomas H. Lee. Last year we used this book a bit. Bookstore have a few copies left. It is a good book to have on the side so drink a few beers less and buy this one too if you ask me...

• RF Microelectronics by B. Razavi. It is a so so book nothing in too much detail, some useful stuff though(on library reserve)

• Solid State Radio Engineering by Krauss, Bostian and Raab. Pretty good book (out of print- in case you can find in some old bookstore)