ECE 113 : Communication Electronics2nd Semester AY 2013-2014

Course Description

Resonant circuits and filters. Analog modulation and demodulation circuits. Frequency synthesis and phaselocked loops. Basic concepts in radio frequency (RF) circuit design. Other communication circuits.

Course Details

Lecture Class:

THR / THUInstructor: Leonard Bryan PaetEmail: leonard.paet@gmail.comConsultation Hours: MWF 10am-12am / T 1pm-5pm @ EEEI Rm 402

Laboratory Class:

THUT1 / THUT2 / THUH1 / THUH2Instructor: Miguel Carlo PurisimaEmail: carlopurisima2000@yahoo.comConsultation Hrs: WF 9am-11am, 1pm-4pm /

THUW2Instructor: Doreena Karmina PulutanEmail: dkapulutan@gmail.comConsultation Hrs: M 1pm-2pm / T 9am-12nn , 1pm-4pm / W 8am-11am @ EEEI Rm 306/402

Course Requirements

(Lecture) 3 Written Examinations, Design exercises, Problem Sets(Lab) 3 Design Problems

Grade Breakdown

For the lecture class:20% Design Exercises10% Problem Set70% Exams

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Final Grade for ECE 113

30% *Laboratory Grade + 70% * Lecture Grade

A student must have both the laboratory grade and lecture grade above 60% in order to pass the course.You must pass both the laboratory and the lecture components of the course!

Grading System

[92 - 100] 1.00 [72 - 76) 2.25

[88 - 92) 1.25 [68 - 72) 2.50[84 - 88) 1.50 [64 - 68) 2.75[80 - 84) 1.75 [60 - 64) 3.00[76 - 80) 2.00 below 60 5.00

Class Policies

• The student must pass both the lecture and laboratory components of the course.• Absolutely NO CHEATING. A student proven to have cheated or have aided in cheating automatically

incurs a 5.0 and a case with the Student Disciplinary Tribunal.• There will be 3 Long Exams.• Re-grading of exam papers will only be considered up to a week after the exams are handed out.• If a student fails to take any of the scheduled long exams, he or she must notify his or her instructor

as soon as possible. The student must secure an official excuse slip from the College Secretary andsubmit the same to his or her instructor within one week after he or she officially reports for class.

• A Comprehensive Exam will be given only to those who missed an exam due to an excused absence. Ifthe absence is due to a valid reason, the grade in the comprehensive exam replaces the missed exam.The comprehensive exam can replace a missed exam only once. Missed exam/s due to unexcusedabsence/s or a second missed exam will be given a grade of zero.

• There will be no grade of ’4’, which means that no removal exams would be given.• Non-submission of problem set and design exercise for the lecture class will be given a grade of ’0’.• ’INC’ will only be given if both the lecture grade and the lab grade are passing.

– Illustration. For the laboratory class, each design problem is 33.33% of your laboratory grade. Ifyou have not completed the third design problem at the end of the semester, you MAY be givenan “INC” IFF your lecture grade is passing >= 60% and your lab grade without the third designproblem is above 0.6 ∗ (33.33% + 33.33%) = 40%. However, your lab instructor will have thediscretion whether he considers an ’INC’ or you’ll be given a ’0’ for no submission.

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SCHEDULE:

First Exam Coverage

Tentatively: January 7, 2013 (Regular: 10am-12nn @ VLC / Early: 7:30am - 9:30am @ SC5)

• RF Circuit Components• Resonant Circuits• Filters I• Filters II• Butterworth Filter Design• Chebyshev Filter Design• Modern Filter Design

Second Exam Coverage

Tentatively: February 15, 2013 (Regular: 2pm-4pm @ VLC / Early: 1pm-3pm @ VLC)

• Link Budget Analysis• Noise and Distortion Analysis• Network Analysis• Matching Networks• Smith Chart and Impedance Matching

Third Exam Coverage

Tentatively: March 22, 2013 (Regular: 2pm-4pm @ VLC / Early: 1pm-3pm @ VLC)

• Transistors at RF• Low Noise Amplifiers• Frequency Synthesis and Phase-locked Loop (PLL) Fundamentals

References

RF Circuit Design. Chris BowickMicrowave Engineering. David Pozar MicrowaveTransistor Amplifers: Analysis and Design. Guillermo GonzalezDesign of Analog Filters. Rolf Schaumann and Mac Van Valkenburg

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