RF Circuit Design Teaching Solution

 The Keysight Technologies, Inc. RF Circuit Design Teaching Solution is a carefully designed, modular and upgradable courseware for under graduate and postgraduate engineering students. The kit comprises of a bundle of RF Transceiver Trainer and Measurement Instruments with necessary Software, to enable engineering community to understand the basics of Communication technologies. The kit is a handy resource to understand the critical measurements that are performed on transceivers, and to learn more about the individual components that go into the development of transmitters & receivers. The Schematic Modules provided in this courseware, are valid for simple Analog RF Communication technologies as well as for the more complex Mobile Communication technologies of present times. Also available as part of this courseware, are Lecture Material and Lab Sheets/Modules for Engineering Educators. These are in an editable format so that they can be customized in accordance with the course curriculum.

 Keysight RF Circuit Design Teaching Solution comprises of:

• N9310A 3 GHz RF Signal Generator
•  N9320B 3 GHz RF Spectrum Analyzer
• E5061B 1.5 GHz Vector Network Analyzer
• N9320B-TR1 Tx/Rx Test Set; which includes: 
• Lecture Material in editable MS PowerPoint format
• RF Transceiver Trainer – Lab Sheets in editable MS Word format 
• GENESYS RF Design & Simulation Software  

The Keysight RF Circuit Design Teaching Solution has been specially designed with the objective of assisting education and research in the areas of: 

• Basic RF concepts 
• RF circuit design concepts 
• RF communication system concepts 
• Characterization of RF circuits
• Usage of CAE tools 
• Simulation and building of RF circuits 

Features

Teaching material provided in editable format to help RF Circuit Design lecturers to customize or update the courseware as per their curriculum and requirements. 

RF Transceiver Trainer has been split into modules for the users to mix and match these as per their requirements. This provides lexibility in building any RF Subsystem, as well as for replacing pre-deined modules with your own modules.

Modules can be used in standalone mode to demonstrate basic concepts, design principles and characterization of transceiver’s building block; or these can be connected together to demonstrate fully functional end-to-end RF transceiver. 

The kit comes equipped with Lab sheets/modules for device characterization on typical RF circuits such as Filter, Low Noise Ampliier, Power Ampliier, Mixer and Synthesizer. 

Computer aided engineering (CAE) design iles based on Keysight GENESYS have been provided in order to demonstrate modeling, design principles and simulation of RF circuits, to facilitate easy learning. 

 Lecture Material Editable slides in MS PowerPoint format for the following topics: 

• Advanced Transmission Line Theory
• RF/Microwave Network Analysis – Impedance Transformation and Impedance Matching 
• RF/Microwave Filters – Passive and Active RF Lumped Components – Small-Signal Ampliier (SSA) Theory 
• SSA Design-Design for Maximum Power Gain and Design for Fixed Transducer Power Gain 
• SSA Design–Low Noise Ampliier 
• SSA Design
• Design for Constant Mismatch, Effective Power Gain