This note covers the following topics:
Basic Building Blocks of an RF System, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Frequency
Spectrum Allocation, RF Parameters and RF Measurement Equipment, RF
Communication Systems, Modulation and Demodulation, Digital Modulation,
Transmitter, Receiver Architecture, Antennas, Phase Noise, Narrowband
Transmitter, Receiver Selectivity, RF Measurement Equipment, Spread Spectrum
Systems and Adaptive Frequency Hopping.
This note covers
the following topics: RF or Microwave circuits, Transistor, transmission line,
and passive element characteristics, Transmission line theory and impedance
matching, Amplifier design for maximum available gain, Amplifier stability, Gain
compression and power limits, Introduction to noise figure, and to
intermodulation distortion.