RF Circuit Design

It's Back! New chapters, examples, and insights; all of them. RF engineers for the past 25 years!

RF circuit design is now more than in the future. 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 integrated component in a very practical fashion. This book has been updated to include today's integrated circuit (IC) and system-level design issues.

Design Concepts and Tools Include

. The Basics: Wires, Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors
.Resonant Circuits: Resonance, Insertion Loss
.Filter Design: High-pass, Bandpass, Band-rejection
. Impedance Matching: The L Network, Smith Charts, Software Design Tools
.Transistors: Materials, Y Parameters, S Parameters
.Small Signal RF Amplifier: Transistor Biasing, Y Parameters, S Parameters
.RF Power Amplifiers: Automatic Shutdown Circuitry, Broadband Transformers, Practical Winding Hints
.RF Front-End: Architectures, Software-Defined Radios, ADC's Effects
.RF Design Tools: Languages, Flow, Modeling


Check out this book's companion Web site at: http://books.elsevier.com/9780750685184 for full-color Smith Charts and extra content!

* Completely updated yet still contains its classic timeless information
* Two NEW chapters on RF Front-End Design and RF Design Tools
* Not overly math intensive, RF-digital circuits


Chapter 1: Components
Chapter 2: Resonant Circuits
Chapter 3: Filter Design
Chapter 4: Impedance Matching
Chapter 5: The Transistor at Radio Frequencies
Chapter 6: Small-Signal RF Amplifier Design
Chapter 7: RF Power Amplifiers
NEW Chapter 8: RF Wireless Front-End Design
NEW Chapter 9: RF Design Software