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Lecture 17 of 76Week 3
Nonlinearity: Gain Compression
Prof. Abhishek Kumar · IIT Hyderabad
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All the lectures
- Wireless communication overview
- Frequency Translation
- Basic wireless transceiver
- Channel selection- digital domain
- Channel selection- analog domain
- Image rejection
- Basics of direct conversion receiver
- Transmission Line Modeling
- Input Impedance, Reflection Coefficient, and VSWR
- Why 50 Ohm Matching?
- Matching Networks Basics
- Series - Parallel Impedance Transformation, L - Match
- Cascaded L - Type Matching, π (Pi) Matching, T Matching
- Understanding and Deriving S-Parameters
- Introduction to the Smith Chart and How to Plot on It
- Noise
- Nonlinearity: Gain Compression
- Nonlinearity: Intermodulation
- On-Chip Inductor Design: Part 1
- On-Chip Inductor Design: Part 2
- On-Chip Capacitors and Resistors: Types and Design
- MOSFET Noise Fundamentals and Analysis
- LNA Architectures: Common-Source Amplifier
- LNA Architectures: CSA with Shunt-Feedback, and Common-Gate
- LNA Design: Common-Source with Inductive Degeneration
- How to design a mixer?
- Noise in the single balanced mixer
- Effect of parasitics and Feed-through paths and their effects
- Feeding LNA output to the mixer and architecture of passive current mode mixer
- How to calculate noise figure of the mixer?
- Quadrature mixer for image rejection and Double Balanced Quadrature passive mixer
- Channel-Selection
- Variable Gain Amplifier: Linearity and Trade-Offs
- N-Path Filters: Part1 - Architecture
- N-Path Filters: Part2 - Operation
- Noise-Cancelling LNA
- Transmitter Design: Introduction
- Transmitter Design: Complex modulation
- Transmitter Design: Upconversion mixer
- Class A amplifier
- Class B amplifier
- Comparison of Amplifier Classes
- Significance of Linearity in Power Amplifier
- Maximizing Output Power in Power Amplifiers
- Driver Amplifier : Introduction
- Driver Amplifier : Design
- Driver Amplifier : Stability
- Power Mixer
- RF - DAC : Part 1
- RF - DAC : Part 2
- Digital PA : Introduction
- Digital PA : Architecture and Digital Control
- Out-Phasing
- Oscillators : Basics
- Cross-Coupled LC Oscillator
- Amplitude Optimization in Cross-Coupled LC Oscillators
- Cross-Coupled LC Oscillator: Feedback Perspective
- Negative Resistance Using a Single Transistor
- Single Transistor Oscillator
- Phase noise
- Impact of Phase Noise on Receiver
- Impact of Phase Noise on Transmitter
- Phase Noise Analysis of LC Oscillators
- Leeson’s Equation and the Role of Q in Phase Noise
- LTI vs LPTV Modeling of LC Oscillators with ISF Insight
- Introduction to Voltage-Controlled Oscillators and Tunable Inductance
- Tunable Capacitors in VCOs
- LC VCO with Varactors and Capacitor Bank Tuning
- Phase Noise in LC Cross-Coupled VCO
- Complete LO Generation in RF Systems
- VCO Case Study Part 1: Phase-Noise Targets for IEEE 802.11g
- VCO Case Study Part 2: Design and Simulation in 45nm CMOS Process
- Rx Case Study Part 1: Noise Figure and Linearity Targets for IEEE 802.11g
- Rx Case Study Part 2: LNA Design and Simulation in 45nm CMOS Process
- Tx Case Study Part 1: Output Power and Compression Targets for IEEE 802.11g
- PA Case Study Part 2: PA Design and Simulation in 45nm CMOS Process