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Distance Learning

Wireless Communications Technology: A Combined Physical and Behavioral Approach

ATI's Fundamentals of RF Engineering course

Summary:

    Technical Training Short On Site Course Quote

      This two-day course is designed for engineers that are non specialists in RF engineering, but are involved in the design or analysis of communication systems including digital designers, managers, procurement engineers, etc. The course emphasizes RF fundamentals in terms of physical principles behavioral concepts permitting the student to quickly gain an intuitive understanding of the subject with minimal mathematical complexity. These principles are illustrated using modern examples of wireless components such as Bluetooth, Cell Phone and Paging, and 802.11 Data Communications Systems.

    Instructor:

      Dr. M. Lee Edwards is a private RF Engineering Consultant since January 2007 when he retired from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). He served for 15 years the Supervisor of the RF Engineering Group in APL’s Space Department. Dr. Edwards’ leadership introduced new RF capabilities into deep space communications systems including GaAs technology and phased array antennas, etc. For two decades Dr. Edwards was also the Chairman of the JHU Masters program in Electrical and Computer Engineering and pioneered many of the RF Engineering courses and laboratories. He is a recipient of the JHU excellence in teaching award and is known for his fundamental understanding of RF Engineering and his creative and insightful approach to teaching.

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    What You Will Learn:

    • How to recognize the physical properties that make RF circuits and systems unique
    • What the important parameters are that characterize RF circuits
    • How to interpret RF Engineering performance data
    • What the considerations are in combining RF circuits into systems
    • How to evaluate RF Engineering risks such as instabilities, noise, and interference, etc.
    • How performance assessments can be enhanced with basic engineering tools such as MatLab TM

    From this course you will obtain the knowledge and ability to understand how RF circuits functions, how multiple circuits interact to determine system performance, to interact effectively with RF engineering specialists and to understand the literature.

Course Outline:

    Day One: Circuit Considerations
    1. Physical Properties of RF circuits
    2. Propagation and effective Dielectric Constants
    3. Impedance Parameters
    4. Refelctions and Matching
    5. Circuit matrix parameters (Z,Y, & S parameters)
    6. Gain
    7. Stability
    8. Smith Chart data displays
    9. Performance of example circuits

    Day Two: System considerations

    1. Low Noise designs
    2. High Power design
    3. Distortion evaluation
    4. Spurious Free Dynamic Range
    5. MatLab ™ Assisted Assessment of state-of-the-art RF systems

Tuition:

    Tuition for this two-day course is $990 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.