Unit I.- Introduction and previous concepts
1. Introduction to the subject Electronics for Telecommunications
1.1. Contextualization and content
1.2. Activities and evaluation
1.3. Introduction to radio frequency (RF) systems
2. High frequency transistors
2.1. Equivalent circuits: BJT and FET
2.2. Common emitter amplifier: Miller effect
23. Gain-bandwidth product
3. Feedback amplifiers
3.1. Transfer function and feedback effects
3.2. Feedback topologies
3.3. Resolution method for feedback amplifier circuits
4. Stability and compensation of feedback amplifiers
4.1. Nyquist criterion for stability
4.2. Stability analysis
4.3. Compensation
5. Noise and distortion
5.1. Noise: noise sources, signal-to-noise ratio, noise factor, equivalent temperature of
noise, sensitivity of a receiver
5.2. Linear and nonlinear distortion
Unit II.- Resonant, impedance matching and filter circuits.
6. Resonant circuits and impedance matching
6.1. Series and parallel resonant circuits
Series-parallel and parallel-series transformations 6.3.
6.3. Impedance couplers with L¿, ¿pi¿ and T¿ networks 6.4.
6.4. Impedance couplers with transformers
6.5. Capacitive and inductive couplers.
7. Filters
7.1. Types and characteristics
7.2. Approximation function of low pass type filters
7.3. Normalizations and transformations
7.4. Passive filters
7.5. Active filters
7.6. Filters with switched capacities
Unit III.- RF functions and electronic circuits
8. RF amplifiers
8.1. Parameters of an amplifier
8.2. Stability: C and K factors
8.3. LNA amplifiers
8.4. Broadband amplifiers (topic 3)
8.5. Tuned amplifiers
8.6. Power amplifiers
8.7. Transistor polarization
9. Oscillators
9.1 Oscillator parameters
9.2. Structure of an oscillator and principle of operation
Oscillator analysis technique 9.4.
9.4. RC, LC, crystal and voltage controlled oscillators (VCO)
10. PLL (Phase-Locked Loop) and Frequency Synthesizers
10.1. Block diagram
Phase detector, filter and VCO oscillator 10.3.
10.3. Transfer function
10.4. Operating margins
10.5. Frequency synthesizers with PLLs
11. Mixers and frequency converters
Parameters of a mixer 11.2.
11.2. Non-linear devices used in mixers
Unit IV.- Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters
12. ADC and DAC converters
12.1. Analog and Digital Signals
12.2. DAC converters: transfer characteristic, binary weighted DACs, ladder DACs, and DAC specifications.
ladder DACs and DAC specifications.
12.3. ADC converters: functions involved, transfer characteristic, parallel ADC,
single ramp, double ramp and staircase ramp ADCs, tracking and successive approximation ADCs, sigma ADCs and
successive approximations, sigma-delta ADCs and ADC specifications.
