ECE 451 - Schedule - Spring 2023

Lecture Day Date Topic Video Read Notes Lab
1 W 1/25/23 Transmission Lines January 18 Ch 5 Transmission Lines  Lab Procedure    Lab 1 - Jupyter Notebook
2 F 1/20/23 The Smith Chart January 20 Ch 5 Smith Chart  
3 M 1/23/23 Waveguides January 23 Ch 9 Waveguides Lab 2 - Introduction to ADS & VNA -- Access ADS
4 W 1/25/23 Scattering Parameters Januuary 25 Ch 9 S Parameters  
5 F 1/27/23 Flow Graph - One-Term Error Model January 27   Flow Graphs NO LAB
6 M 1/30/23 Three-Term Error Model January 30 Error Terms  
7 W 2/1/23 Time Domain Reflectometry February 1   TDR Lab 3 - Error Correction
8 M 2/6/23 TRL Calibration Method February 6   TRL Lab 4 - Time Domain Reflectometry
9 W 2/8/23 Application of TRL February 8      
10 M 2/13/23 Lossy Transmission Lines February 13   Lossy TL Lab 4 - Time Domain Reflectometry
11 W 2/15/23 TL Extraction February 15   Characterization  
12 M 2/20/23 Eye Diagrams February 20   Eye Diagram Lab 5 - TRL Calibration
  W 2/22/23 MIDTERM EXAM February 22      
13 M 2/27/23 Requirement of Physical Channels February 27   Requirements Lab 5 - TRL Calibration
14 W 3/1/23 Requirement of Physical Channels March 1      
  M 3/6/23 NO CLASS March 6      
  W 3/8/23 NO CLASS March 8      
  M 3/13/23 SPRING BREAK March 13      
  W 3/15/23 SPRING BREAK March 15      
15 M 3/20/23 Macromodeling March 20   Macromodels NO LAB
16 W 3/22/23 Circuit Synthesis March 22 Ch 19 Synthesis Lab 6 - Advanced Techniques
17 M 3/27/23 Linear Amplifiers March 27   Amplifiers  
18 W 3/29/23 Gain Compression March 29     Lab 7 - Extraction of TL Parameters
19 M 4/3/23 Power Amplifiers April 3      
20 W 4/5/23 Power Amplifiers April 5     NO LAB
21 M 4/10/23 X Parameters April 10   X parameters  
22 W 4/12/23 X parameters April 12     Lab 8 - SI Analysis with Eye Diagram
23 M 4/17/23 X parameters April 17      
24 W 4/19/23 Coupled Transmission Lines April 19   Coupled Lines Lab 9 - Nonlinear Devices
25 M 4/24/23 Signal Integrity April 24   Signal Integrity  
26 W 4/26/23 Signal Integrity April 26      
27 M 5/1/23 Signal Integrity May 1      
  W 5/3/23 FINAL EXAM