6.776  High Speed Communication Circuits

Please attend Wednesday's lecture

Two guest speakers from Prof. Chandrakasan's group, Arun and Gilad, have kindly agreed to give a guest lecture on their research during Wednesday's class. Providing exposure to modern RFIC design is an important objective of this course and Wednesday's lecture is an integral part of that. The lecture should give you a flavor for cutting-edge wireless research. While we understand that the end of the semester can be rough, as a courtesy to our speakers and for your own benefit, please attend Wednesday's lecture. Thanks!

Announced on 11 May 2015  12:19  p.m. by Pranav R Kaundinya

Presentations on RFIC research

All,

I've invited two Ph.D. students from Prof. Chandrakasan's group to present their research works in RFIC. The talks will be on the lecture of May 13:
(1) Arun Paidimarri, "A High Efficiency, Low Leakage Bluetooth Low Energy Transmitter"
(2) Gilad Yahalom, "A Low-Q Resonant Tank Phase Modulator for Outphasing Transmitters"

I'm sure you will find the talks very interesting and helpful. Please make sure to attend. Thank you.

Ruonan

Announced on 03 May 2015  7:40  p.m. by Ruonan Han

Problem Set 5 Posted

All, the last homework is posted. If you have any question on the problem, feel free to email me or Pranav. Thanks.

Announced on 01 May 2015  9:08  p.m. by Ruonan Han

Final Project Clarification + Homework 4 submission

Just to clarify - the specs for the final project are as given on the first page of the handout (bullets 1-8 under the heading Description). The design guidelines given in the following sections are some targets which will help you meet/exceed the specifications. For example, the handout suggests that your standalone LNA+Mixer have a gain >24dB so that when you replace the ideal LO with your oscillator, you can meet the total gain spec of 20dB (as given on the first page). Feel free to email me if you have any questions regarding the project.

Also, I only received 7 homework 4 submissions in class today (less than half the number of people registered in the class!). If you forgot to submit it in class, please send me an email and submit it as soon as possible. Thanks

Announced on 29 April 2015  9:52  p.m. by Pranav R Kaundinya

Final Project Posted

The description of the final project, a 1.8-GHz CMOS receiver, is posted. The due date is May 18.

I also apologize for the figure problem in HW#4!

Announced on 26 April 2015  9:18  a.m. by Ruonan Han