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Fuelled by the huge expansion in the cellular networks and the emergence of an ever-wider range of data applications, wireless communication has been one of the fastest growing technology areas in the past 20 years and it is expected to continue to grow strongly over the coming decades. Wireless communication technologies have revolutionized how we live, and today, "wireless" is everywhere (home, office, classroom, hospital, etc.) and in everything (mobile phones, laptops, music players, cars, and so on). This course will look at the operational principles and hardware circuit design aspects of wireless systems from a radio frequency (RF) perspective. The course will cover many of the RF building blocks in wireless communication transceiver system: basic passive and active RF components, RF device models, transmission line principles, Smith charts, generalized matrix representation of RF circuits, analysis of multiport RF networks, lumped and distributed microstrip circuits, RF filters, RF amplifiers, RF oscillators and mixers.This course aims to convey to students an understanding of RF background for both the design and analysis of RF devices and circuits. The system-level aspects of wireless systems will be taught in the EEEN 40050 "Wireless Systems" module.