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Microwave Differential Circuit Design Using Mixed Mode S-Parameters

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I bought this book with high hopes, but it turns out that it does not live up to the reputation of its authors. I was hoping that it is similar to Gonzalez's book except that it covers mixed mode and diff. circuits. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and no where near that. There is no real information about how to use the S-parameters to perform impedance matching...the book resorts to Y and Z parameters. I did not purchase this expensive book to read about Y and Z parameter matching.

This book is about a very good topic, which is the mixed mode s-parameters. this topic gets more and more importand for RF/microwave and high-speed digital design engineers, because of the wide spreading of the high-speed or high-frequency differential circuits and interconnections used for PCI-express, SATA and wireless applications in modern electronics.
I wrote "shallow" in the title, because very often the writer gets far away from the original subject and talks obut very loosely related or unrelated things. For generating the mixed-mode s-parameters, the writer uses some constant value transformation matrices, without any explanation of those numbers in the matrices. A little more explanation (for example PCB layout, vias or connectors) about mode transformation cases, and their interpretations on PCIe/SATA/10Gig-Ethernet, or something more about even/odd characteristic impedances would have been also nice to include in the book. Although I am not a microwave engineer (but a digital board design engineer), I am interested in mixed-mode s-parameters for high-speed serial IO.
I didn't regret to buy this book, it contains valuable information.