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| EE950E | RF Electromagnetics | 9 | This course develops a solid foundation in RF Electromagnetics, covering Maxwell’s equations, boundary conditions, plane waves, polarization, and reflection/transmission. It introduces transmission lines, Smith chart methods, waveguides, and resonators, emphasizing conceptual clarity and analytical rigor to prepare students for advanced studies in electromagnetics and communication engineering. |
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| EE951E | Antenna Design | 9 | Learn and apply the techniques used to compute the antenna parameters from the current or field distribution and apply them to analyze various types of antennas. Learn and apply the techniques to design antennas that give desired radiation patterns. |
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| EE952E | RF Imaging and Material Testing | 9 | The use of microwaves for the imaging, characterization and nondestructive testing of materials and media has grown in recent years. It has got applications in number of areas of science and engineering such as the characterization of substrates and numerous materials for the microwave circuit design and microwave processing, dielectric imaging of media and objects in the field of biology and remote sensing, nondestructive testing of concretes and building structures in the field of civil engineering, etc. The major objective of this course is to provide the students an in-depth knowledge of techniques and procedures required for the microwave characterization, imaging and testing of materials and objects. |
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| EE930E | Analog IC Design | 9 |
Course Description:
Understand how to analyze and design multi-stage operational amplifiers to be used in stable negative feedback loops. Understand the trade-offs in analog circuit design, with respect to noise, power, mismatch, etc.
At the end of the course, the students should be able to i) analyze and design single and multi-stage opamps to be used in negative feedback systems, ii) understand stability in negative feedback systems and frequency compensation to stabilize feedback loops, iv) design stable fully differential opamps with common-mode feedback, v) trade-offs involved in designing analog circuits, accounting for noise & mismatch. |
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| EE904E | Wireless Communications | 9 | The course has both theoretical and practical flavors. It aims to explain the fundamental concepts and insights behind the development of modern 4G/5G wireless communication technologies. As part of the course, precise analytical models will be presented for various wireless systems followed by detailed performance analysis. The course intends to cover several key 4G/5G wireless technologies such as OFDM, MIMO, MIMO-OFDM in significant detail. This will also lay the foundation for advanced wireless communication techniques. |
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| EE953E | RF Measurement Techniques | 9 | To provide the students an insight into different aspects of the advanced design and measurements techniques for RF and microwave circuits. |
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| EE954E | RF Passive Circuits | 9 | This course introduces the fundamentals and analysis of planar transmission lines, including microstrip, stripline, and coplanar structures. It covers impedance transformers, multi-section matching, and the application of Smith charts for RF design. Students will explore the theory and design of microwave filters, power dividers, and couplers, along with the principles of isolators and circulators. Emphasis is placed on developing a clear understanding of microwave components essential for RF, microwave, and communication system design. |
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| EE936E | Digital IC Design | 9 |
This course begins with MOSFETS and their properties. Then we use MOSFETS to implement a CMOS inverter and learn about the VTC, delays and power consumption in an inverter. We continue building more complex logic gates and learn about how their delay can be analyzed. Different delay models such as Elmore delay model, logical effort-based delay model are utilized to analyze and optimize the delay in the circuits. Latches, flipflops and their timing parameters are also covered.
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| EE933E | RF IC Design | 9 | At the end of this course, students will learn the basics of radio frequency (RF) circuits, communication systems' architectures, and also gain experience in designing RF integrated circuits. |
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| EE955E | EMI/EMC Techniques | 9 | In today’s scenario, minimizing the electromagnetic interference (EMI) within circuits and systems is one of the major challenges for electrical engineers due to increasing use of high speed and high frequency devices. The electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) mainly deals with such kinds of interference, where the main emphasis is to propose an optimum design of electronic systems to minimize the electromagnetic coupling and interference within the system as well as between the system and the environment. The proposed course would provide an in-depth knowledge of techniques and procedures required for the design of electronic systems, which follow EMC regulatory guidelines. |
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| EE956E | Antennas for RF Systems | 9 |
The wireless communication systems used in modern days are multi-functional and compact in nature. They operate at multiple frequencies for various applications like voice communication, GPS, Blue-tooth, Wi-Fi, etc. It is also required that all these communication devices have high data rates like 5G, 6G and beyond. RF Antenna is a key component for design of any of such wireless communication systems.
This one semester course provides an in-depth knowledge of state-of-the-art antennas used in modern communication systems. The emphasis will be laid on the detailed design procedures and analysis of various antennas used in advanced communication systems. Course covers the RF antennas like CP antennas, printed multi-band and broadband antennas, metamaterial antennas, base station antennas, mobile antennas, etc. Starting from the revision of basic antenna parameters, it goes to the design of circularly polarized (CP) printed antennas, and then discusses new methodologies of antenna design using metamaterials. Further course covers the design challenges of multiple input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas used for higher communication speed. The course also provides detail knowledge of base-station antennas and the antennas used in hand-held devices. |
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| EE957E | RF Transceiver Systems | Elective | This course is primarily aimed at providing students with an in-depth knowledge of microwave and RF integrated circuits, covering both monolithic and hybrid forms of planar technology, with a main emphasis in the field of cellular and wireless communication. The students would be exposed to various concepts of RF circuit design, such as noise, nonlinearity, impedance transformation, transceiver design, LNA topology, and power amplifier configurations. The gain and stability criteria essentially required for a successful microwave circuit design would be explained in detail, and a brief overview of passive RF circuits, such as on-chip inductors, would be provided. |
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