ECE 598 MA2: Advanced RF and mm-Wave IC Design (Spring-2025)

Lectures

Times	Days	Location	Instructor
03:30 PM - 04:50 PM	TR	3013 ECE Building	Dr. Mostafa Gamal Ahmed

Instructor information

Instructor	Dr. Mostafa Gamal Ahmed
E-mail	gamal2[at]illinois.edu
Office Hrs	Friday 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Office Hrs Location	CSL 410

Grading:

Assignments	30%
Midterm	30%
Project	40%

Assignments Grading

Homeworks and exams will be graded on Gradescope. We will add you to Gradescope.
You will be submitting homework using gradescope as a PDF file. Please refer to the following link and video.
Write neatly! Please box the equations you will be solving and the final answer. If we cannot read it we cannot grade it!.
Assignment is due at 11:59PM in Gradescope.
Regrade requests must be submitted on Gradescope within one week of grades being posted. All regrade requests must have a brief justification. Please talk to course staff before you submit a regrade request.

Late Homework Policy

Late homework will be accepted, but comes with a penalty detailed in the table below.

Number of days late	Penalty
1	-10%
2	-30%
> 2	-100%

Letter Grades:

Letter grades shall be assigned as shown in the table below. These thresholds maybe lowered (e.g. curved), depending on exam averages or other extenuating circumstances; these thresholds will not be raised. Meaning, for instance, if your class average is 89.9%, you are guaranteed at least an A-.

100% ≥ A+ ≥ 97%	97% > A ≥ 90%	90% > A- ≥ 87%
87% > B+ ≥ 83%	83% > B ≥ 80%	80% > B- ≥ 77%
77% > C+ ≥ 73%	73% > C ≥ 70%	70% > C- ≥ 67%
67% > D+ ≥ 63%	63% > D ≥ 60%	60% > D- ≥ 57%

Prerequisites:

ECE 498-MA2 (or equivalent)

Text Books:

Class Notes
Darabi, H. (2020). Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Systems (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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