Abstract:

The course consists three parts:

The first part focuses physical and mathematical principles

of wired and wireless electronic communication, including definition of information, high-frequency electronic signals, bandwidth and noise, Fourier transforms in the time domain and frequency domain, sampling and information theory.

The second part focuses analog modulation

techniques - linear modulations and exponential modulations

and examination of system performance in the presence of contaminating noise.

 The third part focuses wireless communication channel properties -

transmission cascade and receiver cascade and the role of antennas.

Abstract:

Introduction to Logic Signals and Circuits – Definition of digital signals, logic levels, logic families, the basic inverter, the ideal and typical switch, transfer characteristics, noise margin, static and dynamic power dissipation.

Temporal behavior: propagation delay of a gate, rise time, fall time, Delay-Power product. Fan-in and Fan-out of logic gate.

NMOS Inverter – VTC of Depletion and Enhancement load inverters. The body effect in MOSFET transistors.

CMOS Inverter – Calculating the VTC of a symmetrical CMOS inverter.

Dynamic operation and propagation delay calculation. The inverter chain

issue and transistor scaling for minimizing propagation delay of inverter chain.

CMOS Gates – Example of complex CMOS logic gates based on PMOS PUN network and the complementary NMOS PDN. Transistor scaling issue to equalize the response time of complex

gate to that of CMOS inverter. Pseudo NMOS gates. Logical effort. Minimizing propagation delay in CMOS gates chain.

Transmission Gate – Calculating the propagation delay and equivalent resistance

of TG in the ON state. Transmission gate structure and characterization as Analog switch. Signal multiplexer using TG.

Latches and Flipflops – Basic latch structure and its switching time behavior.

SR-FF, D-FF. Edge triggered FF based on Master-Slave configuration.

Shift registers and counters. MTBF calculation of D-FF Meta-State and Synchronizers circuits.

Dynamic logic - Dynamic gates, Domino logic, NP logic, dynamic decoders and PLAs. Dynamic shift registers.

Memory cells – Basic memory architecture of Static RAM (SRAM).

The circuit of elementary memory cell of SRAM and dynamic RAM (DRAM).

Address decoders based on row and Column decoders. ROM, EPROM, E2PROM and FLASH.

Sense amplifiers used for SRAM and DRAM memories.

Clock and pulse Generators – The concept of positive feedback to create hysteresis circuits

(Schmitt Triggers). Mono-stable and a-stable multi-vibrator circuits using transistors, CMOS gates,

operational amplifiers and special IC such as 555.

Introduction to Data Converters – The operating principle of A/D and D/A converters.

The quantization noise and Signal to quantization noise ratio. Example of circuits implementing DAC and ADC.

PLL – Phase detector, loop filter and VCO in analog PLL (APLL).

Phase detectors in digital PLL (DPLL). DPLL with PFD (Phase Frequency Detector)

and dual modulus prescaler as the building blocks of modern frequency synthesizers.

Bipolar digital circuits – Self Study - Dynamic response of diode and BJT.

Abstract:

Five meetings will deal with antennas and wave propagation

antenna matching, radiation patterns, gain, polarization and wireless link

Five meetings will deal with communication techniques

sampling, pulse modulations, binary modulations, multi symbol modulations,

transmit-receive channels and line coding

Abstract:

The course provides recognition of the laboratory Spectrum Analyzer.

The main subjects of the labs are: