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RF and wireless systems are one of the key enabling technology for next-generation intelligent transportation systems (ITS), ranging from Vehicle to infrastructure (V2X) communication systems to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and satellite navigation systems. The RF/Microwave electronics industry is evolving rapidly to meet the requirements of a variety of applications leading to robust ITS. The electronics industries, as they evolve in this sector, while adapting from previous generation digital electronics to advanced RF electronics, are having needs to equip their engineers with fundamental principles of RF and microwave engineering.
This intermediate-level course aims to make this transition of the practising engineers, by exposing them to the concepts in RF engineering essential for design, fabrication, system integration and testing of RF systems. The course introduces the fundamentals, enforcing basic knowledge necessary for understanding operation and design principles in a typical RF system. Distributed effects in a transmission line and transition from tradition voltage and current waves to power-waves in the form of Scattering parameters will be introduced. Techniques for Impedance Matching and visualizing using Smith Chart will be covered. Transmission line types and effects critical for PCB design especially for high-frequency operation will be covered. Finally, essential topics on antennas, their radiation characteristics and related propagation effects will be covered. The course will cover relevant examples using appropriate design and simulation tools where applicable.
To aid companies in transforming their capabilities through their human capital, and support Singapore’s drive towards becoming a Smart Nation, this course is mapped to the Singapore Economic Development Board’s Singapore Smart Industry Readiness Index:
Dimension 7 - Shop Floor Connectivity
Dimension 8 - Enterprise Connectivity
Dimension 9 - Facility Connectivity
Teaching Team
What You’ll Learn
Topic 1: Introduction
Frequency Spectrum, Review of Complex Numbers, Units, Wave Characteristics.
Topic 2: Impedance and Transmission Line Theory
Lumped Circuit Elements (R, L and C), Complex Impedance, Transmission Line Theory, VSWR, Reflection Coefficient, Smith-Chart
Topic 3: S-parameters
Network Parameters including Impedance, Admittance, ABCD and Scattering parameters, Vector Network Analyzer and Measurement of S-parameters
Topic 4: Impedance Matching
LC Resonance, Q Matching, Matching Network and Smith Chart
Topic 5: Transmission Lines
Coaxial Cables, Microstrip Lines, Striplines, Multilayered PCB and Via-hole Effects
Topic 6: Antennas and Propagation
EM Radiation, Types of antennas, Antenna design, Performance parameters and measurements, propagation models and path-loss calculations.
Antennas - Friis Transmission Equation
SmithChart - Introduction
Who Should Attend
Practising Engineers from Assistant Engineers to Principal Engineers who are involved in the design, development, and production and testing of RF/Wireless components, circuits, sub-systems, and systems
Technical Staff and Product Managers who wish to upskill their knowledge in RF systems
SITizens Learning Credits (SLC) - Eligible Course
SIT Alumni: Before registering for courses, please activate your SITizens Learning Credits via the email sent by SIT Alumni Team, on behalf of SITLEARN Professional Development.
In order to be eligible for the 70% training grant awarded by SkillsFuture, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
Be a Singaporean Citizen or Singapore Permanent Resident
Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme
SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy
To be eligible for the 90% enhanced subsidy awarded, applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) must:
Be a Singaporean Citizen
Be at least 40 years old
Not receive any other funding from government sources in respect of the actual grant disbursed for the programme
SIT reserves the right to collect the balance of the programme fees (i.e. the potential grant amount) directly from the applicants (and/or their sponsoring organisations where applicable) should the above requirements not be fulfilled.
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