RF Circuit Design: Theory & Applications: International Edition - Softcover

Ludwig, Reinhold; Bogdanov, Gene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131355058 ISBN 13: 9780131355057

Publisher: Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

For senior undergraduate and first-year graduate Electrical Engineering courses in RF circuit design with an emphasis on an analog integrated circuits.

Taking a circuits perspective approach to circuit design fundamentals, this practical and comprehensive text covers all important RF design concepts―with a focus on methodology fundamentals and discussion of theoretical concepts. The Second Edition introduces RF design tools such as the Smith Chart, dual port networks, S-parameters, and provides extensive coverage of RF filter design, matching networks, active and passive device modeling, narrow and broadband amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators.

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From the Back Cover:

For upper-level Electrical Engineering introductory courses in RF Circuit Design and analog integratedcircuits.

This practical and comprehensive book introduces RF circuit design fundamentals with an emphasis on design methodologies.

• Provides MATLAB routines to carry out simple transmission line computations and allow the graphical display of the resulting impedance behaviors as part of the Smith Chart.
  • Allows students to implement these software tools on their own PC.
• All m-files will be included on a bound in CD-ROM.
• Presents RF Amplifier Designs, including small and large signal designs, narrow versus broad band, low noise, and many others.
  • Provides students with useful broad-based knowledge of common amplifier designs used in the industry.
• Discusses Matching Networks, such as T and P matching networks and single and double stub matching. It also includes Discrete and Microstrip Line matching techniques with computer simulations....
• Presents Scattering parameterssuch as realistic listings of S-parameters for transistors and transmission line.
  • Highlights practical use of S-parameters in circuit design and performance evaluation.
• Features Smith Chart, including series and parallel connections of resistor, capacitor, and inductor networks. It also includes simulations in MATLAB to provide graphical display of circuit behavior and performance analysis.
  • Introduces the Smith Chart as a design tool to monitor electric behavior of circuits.
• Introduces the generic forms of Oscillators and Mixers, including negative resistance condition, fixed-frequency, and YIG-tuned designs.
  • Explains the most common oscillator designs used in many RF systems.
• Provides an overview of common filter types, including low, high, bandpass, Butterworth, and Chebyshev filters.
  • Provides design tools to enable students to develop a host of practically realizable filters.
• Discusses the high-frequency behavior of common circuit components, including the behavior of resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
  • Helps students understand the difference of low versus high frequency responses.
• Introduces the theory of distributed parameters through a discussion on Transmission Lines. This includes line parameters, sources and load terminations, and voltage and current waves.
  • Outlines the need of distributed circuit theory in today's high frequency circuits.
• Analyzes active/passive RF circuits through various network description models, especially the two-port network. This discussion also covers impedance, admittance, ABCD, h-parameter networks, and interrelations.
• Includes a number of important pedagogical features―Intersperses examples throughout each chapter, and includes self-written MATLAB routines and circuit simulations by a commercial RF software package.
  • Assists students by clarifying and explaining the theoretical developments.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0131355058
• ISBN 13: 9780131355057
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 720