In this course, student develops understanding understand the fundamentals of RF integrated circuits, performance metrics, semiconductor technologies, active devices, passive components, and packaging, analyzing RF circuits using concepts of gain, noise, linearity, impedance matching, bandwidth, and stability, developing specification-driven circuit designs for RF front-end building blocks such as low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), RF switches, attenuators, variable-gain amplifiers, and phase-shifters, designing, simulating and optimizing RF integrated circuits using industry-standard CAD tools and electromagnetic (EM) simulation environments, implementing RF circuit layouts and evaluate the impact of parasitics, process variations, and packaging on circuit performance, translate system-level requirements into circuit-level specifications and verify design performance through comprehensive simulation and analysis and finally, developing practical expertise in integrated RF circuit design through design projects and technical documentation.