It’s Back! New chapters, examples, and insights; all infused with the timeless concepts and theories that have helped RF engineers for the past 25 years!RF circuit design is now more important than ever as we find ourselves in an increasingly wireless world. Radio is the backbone of today’s wireless industry with protocols such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMax, and ZigBee. Most, if not all, mobile devices have an RF component and this book tells the reader how to design and integrate that component in a very practical fashion. This book has been updated to include today's integrated circuit (IC) and system-level design issues as well as keeping its classic "wire lead" material. Design Concepts and Tools Include•The Wires, Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors•Resonant Resonance, Insertion Loss •Filter High-pass, Bandpass, Band-rejection•Impedance The L Network, Smith Charts, Software Design Tools• Materials, Y Parameters, S Parameters•Small Signal RF Transistor Biasing, Y Parameters, S Parameters•RF Power Automatic Shutdown Circuitry , Broadband Transformers, Practical Winding Hints•RF Architectures, Software-Defined Radios, ADC’s Effects•RF Design Languages, Flow, Modeling*Completely updated but still contains its classic timeless information*Two NEW chapters on RF Front-End Design and RF Design Tools*Not overly math intensive, perfect for the working RF and digital professional that need to build analog-RF-Wireless circuits
The previous comments regarding "outdated" are, in my opinion, misguided since the focus of this book is more on the fundamentals and foundation of RF circuit design which HAS NOT changed since the first edition of the book was written. Reading it is like a class in RF design with explained, detailed exercises, leaving nothing to guess.
This books is a great introduction to RF filters and amplifiers. It has derivations for some of the key equations, but for the most part just presents equations. While some of the circuits described are presented in a cook-book fashion, there are lots of details about how and why they work.
This book is great for understanding filters, matching, and low power amplifiers. It's not as great for understanding mixers, high power amplifiers, and other topics.
Turns the black art of RF circuit design a lighter shade of grey. There are many useful tables and subcircuit analysis references to be found within these pages.
RF circuit level design straight to the point, no gimmick book. This book reminds me of the US Navy, it's like one of those books that military press would publish.