EECS 622 Course Outline
I. Introduction (Chapter 1)
A. History of radio
B. Modern radio
systems (sects. 1.1,1.2,1.4)
C. The radio
transmission system (sect. 1.3)
D. The
Electromagnetic Spectrum
II Transmitter and Receiver
Design
A. Microwave
Components
1. Transmission Lines (sects. 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
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A
Review of Complex Arithmetic
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movie!
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movie!
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2. Amplifiers (sects. 6.2; 3.7)
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3. Mixers (sect. 7.1, 7.2, 7.4)
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4. Local oscillators (sects. 8.1, 8.2,
8.5)
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5. Circulators and Isolators
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6. Switches and Attenuators
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7. Dividers and Couplers
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8. Filters
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Filters file package !
B. Receivers (Chapter
10)
1. The Heterodyne Receiver
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2. The Super-Heterodyne Receiver
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3. Noise
in Microwave Systems (Chapter 3)
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4.
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5.
Receiver
Gain and AGC
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C. Transmitters
1. Modulators (sects. 9.1,2)
2. Power Amplifiers (sect. 6.6)
III Antenna Fundamentals
(Chapter 4)
A. Wave Propagation
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B. Spherical Wave Propagation
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C. Antenna Pattern
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D. Antenna Impedance
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E. Received Power
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F. Basic Antenna Designs
IV Propagation (Chapter 4)
A. Friis Propagation Equation
The
Friis Propagation Equation
B. Extinction
1. Water and Gas
2. Hydrometeors
a) attenuation
b) scattering
e) extinction
3. Rayleigh Scattering
C. Refraction
D. Reflection and
Multipath
E. Diffraction