EE 6311 Microwave Circuits and System

Instructor:       

Dr. Rashaunda Henderson

Email:

rashaunda.henderson@utdallas.edu

Webpage:

http://www.utdallas.edu/~rashaunda.henderson/index.htm

Office:

ECSN 4.620

Phone:

972-883-6454

Office Hours:

MW 15:00 - 16:00 or by appointment

 

Teaching Assistant

Monali Mandra,

TA Office hours location: NSERL first floor lobby

Office hours:  Fridays, 2 - 4 pm

Email:  mam033000@utdallas.edu

Content:

Class time, MW, 17:30 – 18:45

 

Homework and design projects assigned on Mondays, except after mid-term.

 

Five (5) Design projects (4 individual, 1 with a group)

 

One mid-term exam on Oct 20, 2008

 

One final exam on Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008, 5pm

Grading:

Homework/Design Projects

50%

 

Mid-term Exam

25%

 

Final Exam

25%

Required Textbooks and Materials:

Microwave Engineering, 3rd Ed., David M. Pozar, John Wiley and Sons, 2005, Errata

Suggested Course Materials:

Read on-line user tutorials for CAD programs to be used in the class (design projects). Both are available on UT Dallas ECS computers.

 

Agilent Advanced Design Systems (ADS) 2008, Update 2

 

Applied Wave Research Microwave Office 7.01

Useful links:

1.    QuickTime Movies of EM Waves from Iowa State

2.     Propagation of EM Wave,

3.    Plane Waves,

4.    Impedance Smith Charts,

5.    Normalized Admittance/Impedance Smith Charts

6.    Microwave Encyclopedia (microstrip calculator, stripline calculator, coplanar waveguide calculator.)

7.    Touchstone file format (adding noise parameters, pg.10-11),

8.    Using S-parameter data effectively

                                                           

 

Course Outline Fall 2008

Date

Lecture

Subject

Assignment

Aug 25

1*

Introduction, Ch 2, Transmission line theory

Questionnaire

HW #1, (Ch 2), Due Sept  8, HW#1 solutions

Aug 27

2

Ch 2, Terminated Lossless TML

 

Sept 1

NA

Labor Day, No class

 

Sept 3

3

Ch 2, Smith Chart

 

Sept 8

4

Ch 2, Smith Chart, Lossy TMLs

HW #2, (Ch 3), Due Sept 22
HW#2 solutions

Sept 10

5

Ch 3, TEM Waves, Waveguides

 

Sept 15

6

Ch 3, Microstrip

 

Sept 17

7

Ch 3, Microstrip, Planar TMLs,  

AWR tutorial

During class

Sept 18

Not mandatory

Agilent ADS tutorial

1-5pm in the ECS computer lab, 2nd floor

Sept 22

8

Ch 4, Network Analysis

HW #3, AWR or ADS, Due Sept 29
HW#3 solutions

Sept 24

9

Ch 5, Impedance Matching with L networks

Examples for Chapter 5

Sept 29

10

Ch 5, Single-stub tuning

Design Project #1, Matching, Due Oct 6  Now due 10/08

Design Project #1 solutions, Smith chart, simulation slides

Oct 1

11

Ch 5, Double-stub tuning, transformers

 

Oct 6

12

Ch 7, Dividers and Couplers

Design Project #2, Dividers and Couplers, Due Oct 13, Now due 10/15, Solution, Simulation_slides

Oct 8

13

Ch 7, Couplers

 

Oct 13

14

Ch 7 or AWR tutorial

 

Oct 15

15

Mid-term review

 

Oct 20

16

Mid-term exam, Ch 2-5, 7

Open  book, open notes

Oct 22

17

Ch 10, Active Devices

Design Project #3, Switches and Phase Shifters, Due Oct 29,  Now due 11/03, Solution Simulation_slides

Oct 27

18

Review  mid-term

 

Oct 29

19

Device modeling

Design Project #4, Attenuators,
Due Nov 5, Now due 11/10, Solution, Simulation_slides

Nov 3

20

Ch 11, Amplifier Design

 

Nov 5

21

Ch 11, Stability

Final Design Project, Due Nov 19, Now due 11/24

Nov 10

22

Ch 11

 

Nov 12

23

Ch 11

 

Nov 17

24

Ch 11

 

Nov 19

25

Final Presentations, Ch 11

 

Nov 24

26

Final Presentations

 

Nov 26

27

Final Presentations

 

Dec 1

28

Final Presentations, Instructor evaluation

 

Dec 3

29

Final exam review, Final Presentations

 

Dec 8

30

Last Day of Class, Final exam review

 

Dec 17

 

Final exam, Wednesday 5pm