Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Telecommunications Engineering

Radio Communication Circuits

Mid-term Exam Exam date: 20 October 2012 Duration: 60 minutes It is allowed to use material in the exam

Problem 1 (60 pts) Consider a system shown in Figure 1. The system consists of a LNA, a mixer and an IF amplifier. The gains and the noise figures of system elements are given in Table 1. It is assumed that the system requires a SNR of 14 dB at the input of the system. The system bandwidth is 200 KHz. The temperature of resistor modeling the antenna is 290 oK. a. Find the noise floor at input of the system. (10 pts) b. Find the total gain of the system. (10 pts) c. Find the total noise figure of the system. (20 pts) d. Find the sensitivity (smallest allowable input signal) of the system in dBm and in mW. (10 pts) e. Find the SNR at the output of the system (output of IF amplifier). (10 pts)

Table 1 LNA Gain (dB) Noise Figure (dB) 10 2 Mixer 0 5 IF Amplifier 15 8

Antenna Mixer LNA

IF Amplifier

Figure 1
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Problem 2 (40 pts) Design a Class C amplifier that delivers Po = 8 W to a 50-ohm load for conductance angle c = 75o. The DC-power supply is Vdc = 12 V, the saturation voltage of transistor is ignored. For maximum collector efficiency, Vo = Vdc. a. Find the output equivalent resistance of the amplifier. (10 pts) b. Design a matching network to match the amplifier with the 50-ohm load. (10 pts) c. Find the collector efficiency of the amplifier. (10 pts) d. Find the peak collector current and the peak collector voltage of the transistor. (10 pts)

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Head of Department of Telecommunications Engineering