ECE 5830/6830 - Microwave Engineering II

Fall 2002

Catalog Course Description


ECE 5840 Microwave Engineering II. Theory of operation and design techniques for active microwave components. Solid state devices, amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, detectors and systems. Modeling of active microwave devices. Prerequisite: ECE 5810. (3 cr) (F)

Class Information

Instructor: Randy J. Jost
Office: EL 220B
Office Hours: 1:30-3:30 MWF, or by appointment, or when you catch me in the hall

Email address: rjost@ece.usu.edu
Course web page: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/ece/faculty/rjost/Microwaves/ece5130-main-b.html

Lecture: 12:30 - 1:20 MWF, Room EL 109
Labs:   Open, as arranged
     

Required Text: Microwave Transistor Amplifiers: Analysis and Design, 2nd edition, Gonzalez, Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN 0-13-254335-4.

Required Supplements:  Microwave Engineering, 2nd edition, Pozar. John Wiley & Sons, 1998. AKA Pozar-M. This is the text from Microwave Engineering I, so you should already have it.

Recommended Supplements:   Microwave and RF Design of Wireless Systems, Pozar. John Wiley & Sons, 2001. [AKA Pozar-WSPICE, 2nd edition, Roberts & Sedra, Oxford University Press, 1997. 

Recommended Software: We will primarily use three pieces of software:
MATLAB, from The MathWorks;
ADS, or Advanced Design System, by Agilent Technologies;
      and
PSPICE, formerly of the University of California at Berkeley, [http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu]. You should use the version in the lab, PSPICE AD, which is by Cadence.

References: RF Circuit Design, Ludwig & Bretchko, Prentice Hall, 2000; Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques, Vendelin, Pavio, & Rohde, Wiley-Interscience, 1996; RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications, Rohde & Newkirk. Wiley-Interscience, 2000. Microelectronic Circuits and Devices, 2nd ed., Horenstein, Prentice-Hall, 1996.

Also, be sure to use the resources available at the Microwave Engineering I web site. These include the Tutorials and the Microwave Laboratory Information

Syllabus: This course is based on chapters 3 through 5 of the course text (Microwave Transistor Amplifiers, 2nd edition, by Gonzalez) with additional topics selected from Microwave Engineering, 2nd edition, by Pozar.

Grading: We are going to have two exams(2 x 25%), homework (25%) and a programming project (25%) that will take place over the course of the semester. 

Note: Course notes, handouts, and miscellaneous information and material will be posted to the ECE 5830/6830 web site periodically.  Please check there frequently for last minute changes, solutions, etc.
 

Reading & HW Assignments

Lab Info and Labs

Spice & ADS Information

Microwave Links and Information

Supplemental Material, to include Handouts and Project Information


Breaking News

Notice to ADS users

Version 1.5 of ADS has been replaced by ADS 2002. This was necessary due to the imminent expiration of the Version 1.5 license.

To run the new version of ADS, change the path in your .cshrc to the following:

     #.........................................
     #EEsof configuration information
     
     setenv HPEESOF_DIR /opt/ads
     set path = ( $path $HPEESOF_DIR/bin )


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