Frequency Synthesizers: Theory and Design - Hardcover

Manassewitsch, Vadim

9780471011163: Frequency Synthesizers: Theory and Design

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471011169 ISBN 13: 9780471011163

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1987

Phase-Locked Loops Application to Coherent Receiver Design Alain Blanchard This valuable guide provides complete, systematic coverage of phase-locked loops (PLL) and their direct application in the fields of communication, radiolocalization, and time and frequency control and instrumentation. It shows how to specify and evaluate the performance of equipment using PLL and how to attain the maximum benefits from the remarkable properties of such equipment. Progressively building up the theory of phase-locked loops with easily understood mathematics, this book uses physical behavior descriptions, experimental results, and numerical examples to illustrate and amplify the text. All the important results on PLL are contained in this reference, with many graphs, formulas, and diagrams not usually found in a single volume. For design, text and control engineers, technical managers, all users of communication equipment, and students involved in communication theory, this book will serve as an indispensable guide to phase-locked loops. 1976 (1-07941-3) 389 pp.

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About the Author:

About the author Vadim Manassewitsch graduated from Columbia University in 1959. Since 1981, he has worked independently as a consultant teaching frequency synthesis and designing state--of--the--art synthesizers - his specialty for 27 years. Previously, he served as an electrical engineer with Manson Laboratories, Inc., as a project engineer with Westrex Company - a division of Litton Industries - and as a member of the technical staff of RCA's Surface Communications Systems Laboratory. He worked as a project engineer for Polarad Electronic Instruments, as a senior member of the technical staff of ITT's Defense Communications Division, as an engineering consultant for GI's Electronic Systems Division, and as a senior member of the technical staff of Rockland Systems, Inc.

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Praise for the first edition? "This is a very readable, full and stimulating account of the theory and practice of frequency synthesizers, which contains much important material not previously gathered in one volume. The text is illustrated by many clear examples taken from practical situations often involving manufacturers? devices and specifications.? The book is marked by a clear, lucid style, and the illustration of particular points by practical examples is first-class. The diagrams are most helpful, and the notation is clear. Certainly, design engineers would find this book extremely useful as a reference text. Students and nonexperts will find the material understandable and readable." ?P. Daly, University of Leeds, England, in Circuit Theory and Applications Frequency Synthesizers: Theory and Design is the third edition of Vadim Manassewitsch?s definitive treatment of the subject. Updated to include the latest achievements in the performance of crystal-controlled oscillators, the design theory of fast-switching-time synthesizers, and an example of their practical applications, the book continues to be a complete guide for everyone who works with synthesizers. Intended to formulate basic design principles and to demonstrate design procedures meeting several stringent requirements simultaneously, its emphasis is on high-speed synthesis and its new applications in radar, spread spectrum communications, automatic test equipment, and nuclear magnetic resources. Manassewitsch describes numerous approaches to ultra-stable signal sources generating spectrally pure signals of high accuracy, and shows how various building blocks such as mixers, oscillators, and frequency multipliers and dividers are used in frequency synthesis. To meet the needs of engineers in this rapidly growing field, Manassewitsch has added several novel frequency synthesis techniques, developed the principles of high-speed synthesis, and described new synthesizers using important design approaches. A summary of the most recent developments in frequency generation and control, the book is firmly based on the realities of current design practices in the United States as well as abroad. With an intermodulation products chart among its figures, a computer program which calculates the frequencies of mixer intermodulation products among its appendices, and a bibliography of more than 190 references, Frequency Synthesizers: Theory and Design will continue to be an invaluable aid for engineers, managers, instructors, and students.

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