Fundamentals Of RF System Design And Simulation
Fundamentals of
RF System Design and Simulation
12–13 November 2009
Presenter: Dr Rowan Gilmore
Wellington, New Zealand
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About this Course
The course will be conducted
This 2-day short course will focus on tradeoffs in designing wireless systems, and show
from 9.00am to 5.00pm. Morning
how to seamlessly move between both the circuit and system level in radio transceivers
tea will be available at
and other RF systems. We do this by looking at typical radio architectures, exploring the
approximately 10.00am to
design tradeoffs, and simulating at both the circuit and system level. The course treats
10.30am, lunch from 12.30pm
digitally coded signals in RF and IF components, and explores the compromises that are
to 1.30pm and afternoon tea at
inherent in the design of a radio transceiver. From the RF perspective, the need to
approximately 3.00pm to
minimize interference from nearby unwanted stronger signals and to allow detection of a
3.30pm.
desired signal in noise is critical. Avoiding corruption of other signals sharing the
spectrum is equally critical. Achieving both together is not so simple! In wireless LAN for
instance, tradeoffs made to solve one problem, like multi-path reception, have placed
tight constraints on other parts of the system, such as the linearity of the power amplifier.
We will interactively simulate a double super-heterodyne, dual-band radio receiver, as
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well as multiple components. This provides the opportunity to explore 'what if?' scenarios.
AU$1320 (including GST)
To benefit most, bring your own laptop computer and, prior to attending, obtain a free
trial license of the Visual Systems Simulator (VSS) from Applied Wave Research at
www.appwave.com.
Group and PhD student
Brief Course Outline
discounts available. Please
Introduction to Radio Systems and Digital Communications: Revision of Coding and
enquire.
Modulation Formats; Baseband Filtering; Typical Receiver System Architectures: Direct
conversion, super-heterodyne, dual conversion super-heterodyne.
Characterization and Measurement of Receivers: Noise in Receivers; Selectivity,
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Sensitivity and Minimum Detectable Signal; Nonlinearities and Third-Order
Intermodulation Distortion; Reception in the Presence of Interferers; Dynamic Range and
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How to Improve It With AGC.
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Characterization and Measurement of Transmitters: Power and Harmonic Distortion;
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Spurious Products; ACPR, Spectral Regrowth and Linearity; Efficiency.
or
Simulation of a Dual-band Superhet Radio Receiver: Spreadsheet-based Linear Systems
Analysis; Calculation of Sensitivity and Dynamic Range; Systems Simulation; AGC to
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Increase the Dynamic Range; Effect of Changing the Gain, Intercept Point, and Filtering.
System considerations for Amplifiers, Mixers, and Oscillators: Design Tradeoffs between
Linearity, Power, and Efficiency; Classes of Amplifier Operation; Simulation of Spectral
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Regrowth with Different Modulation Formats; Phase Noise in Oscillators; Calculating
Allowable Phase Noise from System Specifications; I -Q Modulators and the importance
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reimbursement. If cancellation is
Dr. Gilmore is a Chartered Engineer and Senior Member of the IEEE. He
later than 4 weeks then the place
has published more than thirty articles in the field of microwave systems
can either be given to another
and circuit design, and has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE
person or the registrant can be
Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and of Wiley's
provided with a credit towards
International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering.
other NICTA training.
He has been active in the education of graduate engineers in industry,
having taught courses around the world to nearly fifteen hundred
practicing RF and microwave engineers for the over a decade. With Dr. Les Besser, he is
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co-author of the widely read two-volume textbook ‘Practical RF Circuit Design for Modern
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Wireless Systems’. For the past four years, as the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian
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industry. He also holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, and
in the School of Business, at the University of Queensland.
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