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Course Description

Course Name:	C10 - Modern Radio Frequency System Design – Theory and Practical Design Techniques
Time & Date:	9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Thursday and Friday, April 26 & 27
Location:	Holiday Inn Select Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA
Speaker:	Henry Lau, Lexiware Technology

Overview:

This course is aimed to provide an opportunity for participants to acquire technical insights on the vital aspects of Modern RF System Design from an industry and practical perspective. It is an intermediate level for circuit, system engineers and managers. The vital aspect and design considerations on various functional blocks of RF system and products will be discussed and analyzed with CAD tools. Designs on commercial products will be presented to participants to gain in-depth and integral perspective on RF System Design. Practical design issues and tips on some critical RF building block such as LNA, mixer and antenna will be presented. The course will be conducted by an RF expert with rich industrial experience. Interactive and open discussions between speaker and participants are encouraged and facilitated to make the whole course more interesting and thought stimulating.

Audience:

System engineers, wireless product designers, RF and microwave circuit design engineers, field application engineers, business development engineers and managers involved in radio frequency or wireless products and systems.

Benefits:

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

1. understand the key functional blocks of Modern RF Systems and their characteristics and specifications

2. understand how component blocks interact and the implications on overall system performance

3. compare and evaluate different types of receiver and transmitter architectures

4. acquire practical design techniques from case studies on commercial RF products

OUTLINE:

Receiver

System Characteristics

Signal and Noise

Noise temperature, noise bandwidth, noise figure, sensitivity

Linearity

Dynamic Range, one dB compression point, intermodulation, automatic gain control

Critical Circuit blocks

LNA, local oscillator, mixer, IF amplifier, demodulator, baseband amplifier

System Architectures and design considerations

Heterodyne, Direct Conversion, Image-reject and Low-IF Receiver

Sample Receiver Designs

Frequency Synthesizer

Circuit Blocks: RF Oscillator, buffer amplifier, PLL chip, loop filter, quartz crystal oscillator

Major Issues: Phase noise, channel acquisition, programming technique, frequency stability: temperature, supply voltage, load pulling

Transmitter

Circuit blocks: oscillator, modulator, buffer amplifier, frequency multiplier, power amplifier, output filter

Major issues: C/N, modulation depth, voltage gain, power gain, power efficiency, harmonic prevention and suppression

Miniature Antennas for Portable electronics

Antenna Fundamentals

Radiation mechanism

Source of radiation

Characteristic of radiation

Parameters and specifications

Radiation pattern, antenna eficiency, aperture concept, directiviy and gain

Types of antenna and performance

Dipole

Monopole

Loop

miniature antennas – patch, inverted-L, inverted-F, meandered line

Practical design considerations and techniques for portable electronics

Expertise:

Henry Lau received his M.Sc. and MBA degrees from UK and USA respectively. He has more than 21 years of experience in designing RF systems, products and RFICs in both Hong Kong and US. He worked for Motorola and Conexant in US as Principal Engineer on developing RFICs for cellular phone and silicon tuner applications. Mr Lau holds five patents and has one patent pending, all in RF designs. He is currently running Lexiwave Technology, a fables semiconductor company in Hong Kong and US designing and selling RFICs, RF modules and RF solutions. He has also been teaching numerous RF-related courses internationally.

Registration includes notes, coffee breaks and lunch

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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