Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 6.776 (Spring 2005) 
• Course Title:
• High Speed Communication Circuits 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Hae-Seung Lee
  Prof. Michael Perrott 
• Course Introduction:
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  6.776 High Speed Communication Circuits
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a complete set of lecture notes and assignments. In addition, custom software for this course is freely available.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  6.776 covers circuit level design issues of high speed communication systems, with primary focus being placed on wireless and broadband data link applications. Specific circuit topics include transmission lines, high speed and low noise amplifiers, VCO's, mixers, power amps, high speed digital circuits, and frequency synthesizers. In addition to learning analysis skills for the above items, students will gain a significant amount of experience in simulating RF circuits in SPICE and also building RF circuits within a lab project.

  
  
  

  Technical Requirements

  
  
  

  Virtuoso Spectre® software is needed to run the .scs files found on this course site.