Links to collaborating institutions and companies



Tutorials, Lecture Materials and Technical Information Pages

Low Noise Amplifier design tutorial

Active mixer design tutorial

Mixer noise measurement tutorial

LC-tank oscillator design tutorial

MIT Open Courseware (free teaching materials)

Johns Hopkins Tutorials on Circuits and Systems

Tutorials from the IEEE Communications Society

RFIC and microwave circuit design basics

The Designer's Guide - tips for simulation and modeling analog and RF circuits

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

RF Cafe


Application Notes 

Hewlett-Packard Application Notes repository

Mini-Circuits Corp. Application Notes

Watkins-Johnson Tech Notes (aka Application Notes)

Motorola Application Notes

Maxim-IC Application Notes

Fairchild Semiconductor Application Notes

National Semiconductor Application Notes

Analog Devices Inc. Application Notes

Application Notes from various sources


Third-party RF Calculator Applets

Phase noise to jitter conversion

Fixed attenuator calculator; another attenuator calculator

Impedance matching network calculator (lumped-element)

Rectangular waveguide modes

Metric unit conversions


Research Papers

Highly cited papers on mixers

Highly cited papers on oscillators

Best Papers in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Bell-System Technical Journal (entire collection dating from 1922 until 1983)


Selected IEEE Links

IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 22: Signal Generation and Frequency Conversion

IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

IEEE Canada (Region 7)

IEEE Kingston (Ontario) Section

IEEE Conference Search Engine


Engineering and Professional Organizations

International Union of Radio Science (URSI)

International Association of Science and Technology Development (IASTED)

Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)

Engineers without Borders

International Telecommunication Union (United Nations)


Patent Offices and Patent Databases

US Patent Office

Canadian Intellectual Property Office

European Patent Office (EPO)

Japanese Patent Office

Free Patents Online