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2022-2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ELEG 642 - RF Systems Engineering for Wireless & Mobile Communications

Credit(s): 3
RF SYS ENGR WIRELESS MOBILE CM
Component: Lecture
This course present a systems approach to designing RF systems for wireless and mobile communications.  It covers topics including: (1) A review of Electromagnetics, (2) Transmission line theory with Smith Charts, (3) RF and Microwave Sources, (4) RF Amplifiers (discuss classes of amplifiers and the effects of noise figure, compression and non-linearities), (5) RF Mixer design (discuss types and figures of merit, including conversion loss, harmonic distortion, etc.), (6) RF Filter Design (overview of first and higher order filters), (7) Analog-to-Digital as well as Digital-to-Analog Converters, (8) Noise (cover the origin of thermal noise, shot and flicker noise as well as others in the context of probability theory), (9) Antennas (brief overview in the context of their input impedance and bandwidth from a systems perspective), (10) Atmospheric and environmental considerations of signal propagation and loss, (11) RF Photonics, and (12) Applications including: computing networks, wireless communications, Radar, and electronic sensing
Repeatable for Credit: Y Allowed Units: 3 Multiple Term Enrollment: N Grading Basis: Student Option