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Phase-Lock Basics [Hardcover]

William F. Egan (Author)
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August 4, 1998 0471242616 978-0471242611 1
A versatile and immensely useful introduction to phase-locked loops. Phase-Lock Basics is a broad-based, hands-on text, designed to be both easy to understand and easy to customize. The text can be used as a theoretical introduction for graduate students or, when used with MATLAB simulation software, the book becomes a virtual laboratory for working professionals who want to improve their understanding of the design process and apply it to the demands of specific situations. The description of second-order phase-locked loops is very thorough, covering all practical variations with formulas, graphs, worked examples, problem sets, and MATLAB simulation exercises, and forming a basis that is extended into an understanding of more complex loops.

Other features include:

Introduction to loop components, stability, responses, and performance in the presence of noise
MATLAB simulation software and other design aids written explicitly to correspond with the text
Access to an Internet site that corresponds with the text so that curves can be downloaded, duplicated, or modified
Scores of multicurve figures that illustrate various loop responses
Summary of acquisition formulas for second-order loops
A four-page table of CW, AM, and FM signals in multiple representations.
Phase-Lock Basics is an important reference for professional analog and digital circuit designers. It also provides a complete and satisfying learning experience for graduate electrical engineering students.

**NB: Please note the correct number for Wiley technical support for the FTP site is 317-572-3994.

An Instructor Support FTP site is available from the Wiley editorial department.


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Mr. Egan is uniquely qualified to present this textbook course on PLLs... -- Microwaves & RF magazine, January 2008 --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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A versatile and immensely useful introduction to phase-locked loops.

Phase-Lock Basics is a broad-based, hands-on text, designed to be both easy to understand and easy to customize. The text can be used as a theoretical introduction for graduate students or, when used with MATLAB simulation software, the book becomes a virtual laboratory for working professionals who want to improve their understanding of the design process and apply it to the demands of specific situations. The description of second-order phase-locked loops is very thorough, covering all practical variations with formulas, graphs, worked examples, problem sets, and MATLAB simulation exercises, and forming a basis that is extended into an understanding of more complex loops.

Other features include:

  • Introduction to loop components, stability, responses, and performance in the presence of noise
  • MATLAB simulation software and other design aids written explicitly to correspond with the text
  • Access to an Internet site that corresponds with the text so that curves can be downloaded, duplicated, or modified
  • Scores of multicurve figures that illustrate various loop responses
  • Summary of acquisition formulas for second-order loops
  • A four-page table of CW, AM, and FM signals in multiple representations.

Phase-Lock Basics is an important reference for professional analog and digital circuit designers. It also provides a complete and satisfying learning experience for graduate electrical engineering students.

**NB: Please note the correct number for Wiley technical support for the FTP site is 317-572-3994.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 520 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (August 4, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471242616
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471242611
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,307,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good treatment of core subject, but difficult for beginner, July 25, 2000
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This review is from: Phase-Lock Basics (Hardcover)
I am new to phase-lock loop design. Like most recent EE grads, I had one class in linear control systems, and some basic DSP classes, but thankfully that's enough to get started on PLL design.

I haven't finished Egan's book, but so far I think I can make some generalizations about his writing style. He redefines some 'common concepts' (like frequency) as "frequency + phase." You have to read carefully, otherwise you might miss his redefinition, and that will cause you confusion for the rest of the book. I don't like how he simply writes down formulas without any kind of symbol explanation. He explains the formulas well, but a simple 'w_c = carrier frequency component, f_m = modulation frequency component' alongside the formulas would really help. Symbols are re-used quite often, so one variable may change meaning from one page to the next...This means you can't just skip around the book without carefully reading the accompanying text passages.

These minor annoyances aside, the content is excellent. He spends a little time covering "basic material", for example bode-plots, root-locus, nyquist plots, and shows how these basic tools can aide a qualitative understanding of PLL steady-state stability. (Everything is cast as a second-order system, which is easy to hand-decompose.) This is important, because once you read about the non-linear regions of PLL behavior, it's easy to get lost in the math.

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, May 11, 2000
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This review is from: Phase-Lock Basics (Hardcover)
This is my favorite book on phase locked loops in my entire library. It is an excellent book for actually learning phase locked loops from the ground up.

I have been involved in PLL design for four years. Reading through this book last year provoked a series of, "Aha!" moments and "That's an excellent way to phrase that," comments.

Egan has the knack of taking concepts which should be familiar to anyone with a degree in electrical engineering, and extending them easily to the very specific study of phase locked loop systems. His writing is clear and straight forward, and his analogies and examples are well chosen.

And happily, he does NOT make use of the age-old (and incomprehensibly useless to most of us) mechanical damping or servo systems.

This should be the first book on PLLs you read. Then you can move on to Rohde, et al.

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Inside This Book (learn more)
First Sentence:
A phase-locked loop is a circuit that synchronizes the signal from an oscillator with a second input signal, called the reference, so that they operate at the same frequency. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phase power spectral density, sinusoidal phase detector characteristic, equivalent phase noise, elseif strcmp, square phase deviation, mathematical block diagram, additive input noise, peak phase error, standard discriminator, cycle skipping, total phase noise, parabolic input, false restart, initial frequency error, maximum sweep rate, skipping cycles, peak phase deviation, output phase noise, seize range, multiplicative modulation, sinusoidal characteristic, frequency power spectral density, maximum phase margin, more complex loops, sweep loop
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bode Nyquist Evans Fig, Combining Eqs
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