The MMIC Design course is a graduate Electrical Engineering class at Johns Hopkins University taught by Craig Moore and John Penn. Students learn about Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Design (MMIC) during the first half of the semester and then apply that knowledge on a MMIC design project. This year's student projects are shown as layouts and reports below. Gary Wray of Agilent EEsof provided software support. TriQuint Semiconductor provided the design library for Agilent's ADS design tool and is fabricating the GaAs ICs during the beginning of 2003. Students will return to test the fabricated ICs in early-2003.JHU MMIC Design EE787 Course
FALL 2002 MMIC Projects--S Band Transceiver
Fall 2002 MMIC Projects--Overview
Fall 2002 MMIC Projects--Layouts
Low Noise Amplifier Report-- Li Zhimin
Low Noise Amplifier Layout--Li Zhimin
Post Amplifier Report--Kerron Duncan & Walter Tates
Post Amplifier Layout--Kerron Duncan & Walter Tates
Power Amplifier Report--John Brice & Chris Giusto
Power Amplifier Layout--John Brice & Chris Giusto
Following will be the test results of the MMIC chips designed in the Fall 2002 MMIC class after fabrication (Winter 2003) and test (Spring 2003). The chips make up an S-Band duplex transceiver system for the Wireless Communication Service (WCS) 2305- 2360 MHz or for the Industrial, Scientific, Medical band of 2400-2497 MHz..JHU MMIC Design EE787 Fall 2002 Results
Measured Results--Fall 2002 MMICs
Performance Spreadsheets:
Low Noise Amplifier Results--Li Zhimin
Post Amplifier Results--Kerron Duncan & Walter Tates
Power Amplifier Results--John Brice & Chris Giusto
Mixer Results--Jeff Jaso
VCO Results--Mark Petty
Doubler Results--Ming-Zhi Lai