Anatomy of a radio frequency integrated circuit design course

Author

Kornegay, Kevin T.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

17-18 June 2001

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

55

Abstract

The field of radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design is currently enjoying a renaissance, driven by the explosive growth in wireless applications. Because of this sudden and unexpected growth, there has been a frenzied scramble to train RF engineers to meet the high demand. A major challenge in this task is that RF design is multidisciplinary in nature, requiring knowledge of communications and signal propagation theory, transceiver architectures, and circuit design. This paper describes an intensive first-year graduate course designed specifically to produce competent RFIC designers in one year.

Keywords

MMIC; UHF integrated circuits; circuit CAD; educational courses; electronic engineering education; integrated circuit design; training; transceivers; RF engineer training; RFIC; circuit design; first-year graduate course; integrated circuit design; multidisciplinary RF design; signal propagation theory; transceiver architectures; wireless applications; Analog integrated circuits; Anatomy; Bipolar integrated circuits; CMOS analog integrated circuits; CMOS digital integrated circuits; Circuit testing; Microwave integrated circuits; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronic Systems Education, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1156-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSE.2001.932412

Filename

932412