RF fundamentals training course description
Radio Frequency engineering is an important yet often overlooked area in today's wireless world. This course provides a grounding in RF theory and practice for wireless, cellular and microwave systems.
What will you learn
Explain the basics of RF.
Describe RF propagation and antenna principles.
Calculate propagation losses and link budgets.
Test RF systems.
RF fundamentals training course details
Who will benefit:
Those working with wireless, cellular and microwave systems.
Prerequisites:
None.
Duration
2 days
RF fundamentals training course contents
What is RF?
Definition of RF, RF wave characteristics:
Frequency, wavelength, power, phase, impedance,
RF history, radio signals, frequency bands, safety
issues, legal issues.
RF systems
Microwaves, cellular/mobile RF, WLANs, other
fixed wireless networks, basic RF components.
Hands on Building a basic WLAN network.
RF system components
Transmitters:
Antennas: Isotropic, Dipole, how antennas achieve
gain.
Modulation
Schemes, bandwidth, AM, FM, FSK, PSK, QAM,
QPSK, interference, performance.
Hands on
Interference and performance.
Multiple access schemes
FDMA, CDMA, TDMA, CSMA/CA.
Wireless systems
Cellular (GSM, UMTS), Wifi, WiMax, others: GPS,
DBS, RFID, radar, Bluetooth.
Hands on cellular.
Spread Spectrum technologies
Spread spectrum benefits and disadvantages, how
it works, Direct Sequence, Frequency Hopping,
hybrids.
RF propagation
Models, link budget, Smith chart, RF matching with
the Smith chart. cell capacity, tradeoffs: power vs.
bandwidth, free space, reflection, diffraction,
multipath cancellation, propagation prediction and
measurement tools.
Hands on Smith charts.
RF testing
Why power rather than voltage/current, units of
power, dB and dBm power conversions. Test
equipment: signal generators, power meters,
network analysers, spectrum analysers. RF test
setups: return loss, insertion loss.
Hands on RF
testing.