Practical Digital Wireless Signals (The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series) - Softcover

Mccune, Earl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107674093 ISBN 13: 9781107674097

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Do you need to know what signal type to select for a wireless application? Quickly develop a useful expertise in digital modulation with this practical guide, based on the author's experience of over thirty years in industrial design. You will understand the physical meaning behind the mathematics of wireless signals and learn the intricacies and tradeoffs in signal selection and design. Six modulation families and twelve modulation types are covered in depth, together with a quantitative ranking of relative cost incurred to implement any of twelve modulation types. Extensive discussions of the Shannon Limit, Nyquist filtering, efficiency measures and signal-to-noise measures are provided, radio wave propagation and antennas, multiple access techniques, and signal coding principles are all covered, and spread spectrum and wireless system operation requirements are presented.

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Review

Review of the hardback: 'Any architect defining communications features for wireless products should find this book useful ... a book you can actually read. ... experienced readers ... will find details in the unique explanations that offer greater insight into principles they thought they already knew.' High Frequency Electronics

Review of the hardback: '... a fun tour of signals, noise, circuit techniques, wireless propagation limitations, the math of error correction codes, and the limits of information transfer.' IEEE Microwave Magazine

From the Author

With many excellent texbooks providing mathematical approaches to the topic of modulation, I felt (as did several others) that a book which approaches the same material from a physical direction would be very useful. This is my attempt to provide 'what the mathematics is trying to tell you'. It is intended to sit alongside any textbook, as a supplemental reference. Of course, this book also includes what I have learned after nearly 40 years of work trying to figure this very approach out for myself.

I hope that you enjoy reading and using this book as much as I have enjoyed writing it!

Earl McCune

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107674093
• ISBN 13: 9781107674097
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 434