Introduction to RF: Fundamentals and Principles
Details
Radio Frequency (RF) covers the spectrum from 3 kHz up to 300 GHz. RF work has gained a reputation of being something of a “black art”. It is a fact that, in general, RF products will need to be tuned as simulation tools and models are not accurate enough to get to first pass success without tuning. However, a lot of issues occur needlessly from sloppy work and a lack of understanding of basic principles. This means that, in general, a lot of issues can be solved before they even occur. This requires that the basic principles of RF are understood and there is rigorous attention to detail in all phases of design and test.
This course is an introduction to RF for design engineers, test engineers and product engineers or anyone else who needs to work with RF or has an interest in the field of RF. The emphasis of the course will be on the practical aspect rather than the mathematical aspect. The aim is for engineers to obtain an intuitive understanding of the concepts to allow them to apply these concepts in their work.
The internet offers a lot of resources for the RF engineer and it is not the objective of this course to supplant the internet, but to offer a guide for the engineer to know what to look for and where to find it. Engineers who take this course should leave
knowing the basics of RF design and test, what to look for on the internet and where to find the relevant articles and calculators to help them during their work.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completing the course, the participants will be able to:
- Understand RF fundamentals
- Understand RF terminology
- Work with transmission lines
- Have an understanding of mismatch and the importance of matching
- Understand the performance of passive devices at RF
- Work with passive devices at RF
- Have a basic understanding of active devices at RF
- Track down grounding and signal return issues
- Find relevant articles on the internet to fill in blanks in their knowledge
- Find online calculators to calculate RF parameters
Who Should Attend?
Engineers working with RF. Engineers working on RF integrated circuits. Design and layout engineers tasked with undertaking RF or high-speed digital board design. Technicians and test engineers involved in test and debug using RF products. Technical management needing an understanding of RF. Anyone with an interest in RF. The course aims to impart an intuitive understanding of the concepts involved, but there is a mathematical basis to most of the content and the student will need to be comfortable dealing with engineering mathematics.
*This is a pre-recorded online course commenced via Udemy.
*The course consists of 5 sessions with a total 6.5 hours.
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Outline
- RF basics
- Transmission lines
- S-parameters
- The Smith chart
- Passive components
- Active components
- RF circuits
- Terminations and matching
- Grounding
- Coupling and decoupling considerations
- Noise
- Small signal and large signal
- Harmonics
- Frequency conversion and mixing
- Designing for tunability
- Debugging
KEY CONCEPTS
Energy transmission at RF frequencies · electromagnetic waves · dB representation of power and voltage · s-parameters · component matching · grounding issues · noise in RF circuits · non-linear effects in RF circuits · tuning · debugging
Speaker/s
He was the inventor of the output structure used on all Amalfi/RFMD CMOS PAs and was also the sole inventor of the method used to integrate the front-end switching in bulk CMOS for the World's first GSM/GPRS Tx Modules with integrated switch. He was also the lead of the group that designed a Band I WCDMA amplifier with the World leading Figure Of Merit (FOM) for a CMOS PA of 80.
Prior to Amalfi Semiconductor, Dr. Smith worked at Intel where he was responsible for the architecture and system design of cellular transceivers and was involved in making the first call on a public network using an Intel designed transceiver. Dr. Smith started in the cellular field at Bell Labs in 1996 where he was delivered mixed-signal, analogue, and RFIC circuits for cellular and pager products.
Before Bell Labs and after graduating with a Ph.D. he worked for over three years at Matsushita Electric Works (now renamed Panasonic) in Osaka, Japan, on the design of analogue sensor circuits. He holds over 40 patents, has delivered invited tutorials at conferences in Asia, the US and Europe and has published several Journal and conference papers.
Dr. Smith was awarded the B.Sc (Hons) degree in Microelectronics from the University of Edinburgh, the M.Sc. from the University of Westminster and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Kent all in the UK. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the IET in the UK.
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