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Summary:
This three day course is designed for specialists as well as non-specialists in RF engineering involved in the design, analysis, testing, or utilization of communication systems. 3 This includes digital designers, managers, systems engineers, procurement engineers, etc. The course emphasizes RF fundamentals in terms of physical principles and behavioral concepts permitting the student to quickly gain an intuitive understanding of the subject with minimal mathematical complexity. These principles are illustrated using MATLAB/SIMULINK with the RF Toolbox/Blockset to analyze modern examples of wireless, radar, communications, and aerospace systems. Students are encouraged to bring their MATLAB/SIMULINK equipped laptop or notebook computers to the class. Each student will receive a CD containing more than a 100 MATLAB scripts and SIMULINK model files.
Instructor:
What you will learn:
- To recognize the physical properties that make RF circuits and systems unique
- To understand the important parameters that characterize RF circuits
- To interpret RF Engineering performance data
- To recognize the important considerations in combining RF circuits into systems
- To evaluate RF Engineering risks such as instabilities, noise, and interference, etc.
- To enhance basic engineering assessments using MATLAB/SIMULINK TM simulations
From this course you will obtain the knowledge and ability to understand how RF circuits function and how multiple circuits interact to determine system performance, to interact effectively with RF engineering specialists, and to understand the literature.
Course Outline:
- Passive RF Circuit Considerations
- Physical Properties of RF circuits
- Propagation and effective Dielectric Constants
- Impedance Parameters
- Reflections and Matching
- Smith Chart data displays
- Circuit matrix parameters (Z,Y, & S parameters)
- Introduction to MATLAB/SIMULINK™ and Analysis of Passive RF Circuits
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Active RF Circuit Considerations
- Gain
- Stability
- Low Noise designs
- High Power design
- MATLAB/SIMULINK™ Assisted Assessment of Active RF Circuits
- RF System Considerations
- Distortion evaluation
- Spurious Free Dynamic Range
- Mixing and Modulation
- MATLAB/ SIMULINK™ analysis of wireless systems
- MATLAB/ SIMULINK™ analysis of communications systems
- MATLAB/ SIMULINK™ analysis of radar systems
Tuition:
Tuition for this three-day course is $1795 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@aticourses.com.
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Dr. M. Lee Edwards ,is a private RF Engineering Consultant since January 2007 providing strategic executive support to companies specializing in space and terrestrial communications and radar systems. At the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) he served for 15 years as the Supervisor of the RF Engineering Group in APL’s Space Department. With Dr. Edwards’ leadership his group introduced new RF capabilities into deep space communications systems including GaAs technology and phased array antennas. For two decades Dr. Edwards was also the Chairman of the JHU Masters program in Electrical and Computer Engineering; he pioneered many of the RF Engineering courses and laboratories. Dr. Edwards is known for his fundamental understanding of RF Engineering and his creative and insightful approach to teaching. He currently teaches an online graduate Digital Signal Processing class for JHU and is a recipient of the JHU excellence in teaching award.
