Digital Techniques for Wideband Receivers (Artech House Radar Library) [Hardcover]

James Bao-Yen Tsui (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0890068089 | ISBN-13: 978-0890068083 | Publication Date: September 1995

As communication bandwidth increases, many of the communications hardware considerations and digital signal processing approaches primarily designed for EW receivers are becoming equally applicable to communication receivers. This is an up-to-date survey of practical design techniques for receiver systems engineers that includes problems, solutions, design procedures, real-life examples, and Matlab programs. This book contains a comprehensive description of digital processing applicable to wideband receivers. It explains the requirements of wideband digital RF receivers, provides numerous solutions to receiver problems, and gives an overview of future trends in receiver development. The text is intended for electronic warfare engineers, receiver designers, communications engineers, and those working in digital hardware processing. It features 753 equations, and 192 figures.

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“The purpose of this book is to introduce digital signal processing approaches that are appplicable to wideband receiver designs. Its emphasis is on the techniques rather than theoretical discussions. It is written primarily for researchers in EW and communications areas and is presented at a senior or graduate school engineering level. Many examples are presented and a comprehensive bibliography is offered at the end of each chapter. Many computer programs, written in MATLAB, are included to help the reader understand the problems and design of a wideband receiver. This book will make a useful addition to the library of anyone interested in wideband receivers.” - --Microwave Journal, July 2001

“The purpose of this book is to introduce digital signal processing approaches that are appplicable to wideband receiver designs. Its emphasis is on the techniques rather than theoretical discussions. It is written primarily for researchers in EW and communications areas and is presented at a senior or graduate school engineering level. Many examples are presented and a comprehensive bibliography is offered at the end of each chapter. Many computer programs, written in MATLAB, are included to help the reader understand the problems and design of a wideband receiver. This book will make a useful addition to the library of anyone interested in wideband receivers.” - --Microwave Journal, July 2001

“The purpose of this book is to introduce digital signal processing approaches that are appplicable to wideband receiver designs. Its emphasis is on the techniques rather than theoretical discussions. It is written primarily for researchers in EW and communications areas and is presented at a senior or graduate school engineering level. Many examples are presented and a comprehensive bibliography is offered at the end of each chapter. Many computer programs, written in MATLAB, are included to help the reader understand the problems and design of a wideband receiver. This book will make a useful addition to the library of anyone interested in wideband receivers.” - --Microwave Journal, July 2001 --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

James Tsui is an electronics engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. He is a fellow of the Air Force Research Laboratory and the IEEE. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 518 pages
• Publisher: Artech House (September 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890068089
• ISBN-13: 978-0890068083
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,399,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to receiver signal processing, January 11, 2009

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A. Stewart (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Techniques for Wideband Receivers (Artech House Radar Library) (Hardcover)

This book is a great intro to digital receiver design and techniques. The focus of this book however, is for those receivers which are used for Radar Warning Receivers (RWRs). The second chapter starts off with typical and desirable characteristics applicable to these type of receivers (wides bandwidth and large instantaneous dynamic range, etc). He then uses this intro to gradually introduce all parts of a receiver and signal processing techniques.

This book covers ADC and their pertinent selection criteria, analog RF chain analysis, probability of detection, FFTs, monobit receiver design, antenna arrays, angle of arrival, spectral estimation techniques (I actually like the presentation here more than compared to Proakis and Manolakis's Digital Signal Processing book), and then how do you test it all as a system.

There are many more topics that I am missing, but I think that I have hit on the main points. All in all, I would recommend this book if you are interested in learning the techniques used in RWRs, but the chapter on ADCs is also good for any designer looking for ways to choose ADCs and how to test them.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, June 29, 2009

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Maximillian (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Techniques for Wideband Receivers, Second Edition (Paperback)

One of the best books on designing digital receivers. Has tons of details probing aspects of both the RF and the DSP side of it. It is all discussed in the context of electronic warfare applications. Great mesh of an RF-meets-radio DSP text. Clear discussions, even MATLAB code. Lots of figures.