Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits
1 Introduction
This is the material for an introductory radio-frequency integrated circuits course. The contents are derived from (Razavi 2011) and (Darabi 2020); these two books are an excellent introduction into this topic and are highly recommended!
It is assumed that readers are familiar with the contents of this Analog Circuit Design course.
All course material (source code of this document, Jupyter notebooks for calculations, Xschem circuits, etc.) is made publicly available on GitHub (follow this link) and shared under the Apache-2.0 license.
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