RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications [Paperback]

Reinhold Ludwig (Author), Pavel Bretchko (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0130953237 | ISBN-13: 978-0130953230 | Publication Date: January 28, 2000

For upper-level Electrical Engineering introductory courses in RF Circuit Design and analog integratedcircuits. This practical and comprehensive book introduces RF circuit design fundamentals with an emphasis on design methodologies. *Provides MATLAB routines to carry out simple transmission line computations and allow the graphical display of the resulting impedance behaviors as part of the Smith Chart. *Allows students to implement these software tools on their own PC. *All m-files will be included on a bound in CD-ROM. *Presents RF Amplifier Designs, including small and large signal designs, narrow versus broad band, low noise, and many others. *Provides students with useful broad-based knowledge of common amplifier designs used in the industry. *Discusses Matching Networks, such as T and P matching networks and single and double stub matching. It also includes Discrete and Microstrip Line matching techniques with computer simulations...*Presents Scattering parameterssuch as realistic listings of S-parameters for transistors and transmission line. *Highlights practical use of S-parameters in circuit design and performance evaluation.* Features Smith Chart, including series and parallel connections of resistor, capacitor, and inductor networks. It also includes simulations in MATLAB to provide graphical display of circuit behavior and performance analysis. *Introduces the Smith Chart as a design tool to monitor electric behavior of circuits. *Introduces the generic forms of Oscillators and Mixers, including negative resistance condition, fixed-frequency, and YIG-tuned designs. *Explains the most common oscillator designs used in many RF systems. *Provides an overview of common filter types, including low, high, bandpass, Butterworth, and Chebyshev filters. *Provides design tools to enable students to develop a host of practically realizable filters. *Discusses the high-frequency behavior of common circuit components, including the behavior of resistors, capacitors, and inductors. *Helps students understand the difference of low versus high frequency responses. *Introduces the theory of distributed parameters through a discussion on Transmission Lines. This includes line parameters, sources and load terminations, and voltage and current waves.* Outlines the need of distributed circuit theory in today's high frequency circuits. *Analyzes active/passive RF circuits through various network description models, especially the two-port network. This discussion also covers impedance, admittance, ABCD, h-parameter networks, and interrelations. *Includes a number of important pedagogical features-Intersperses examples throughout each chapter, and includes self-written MATLAB routines and circuit simulations by a commercial RF software package. *Assists students by clarifying and explaining the theoretical developments.

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For upper-level Electrical Engineering introductory courses in RF Circuit Design and analog integratedcircuits.

This practical and comprehensive book introduces RF circuit design fundamentals with an emphasis on design methodologies.

• Provides MATLAB routines to carry out simple transmission line computations and allow the graphical display of the resulting impedance behaviors as part of the Smith Chart.
• Allows students to implement these software tools on their own PC.
• All m-files will be included on a bound in CD-ROM.
• Presents RF Amplifier Designs, including small and large signal designs, narrow versus broad band, low noise, and many others.
• Provides students with useful broad-based knowledge of common amplifier designs used in the industry.
• Discusses Matching Networks, such as T and P matching networks and single and double stub matching. It also includes Discrete and Microstrip Line matching techniques with computer simulations....
• Presents Scattering parameterssuch as realistic listings of S-parameters for transistors and transmission line.
• Highlights practical use of S-parameters in circuit design and performance evaluation.
• Features Smith Chart, including series and parallel connections of resistor, capacitor, and inductor networks. It also includes simulations in MATLAB to provide graphical display of circuit behavior and performance analysis.
• Introduces the Smith Chart as a design tool to monitor electric behavior of circuits.
• Introduces the generic forms of Oscillators and Mixers, including negative resistance condition, fixed-frequency, and YIG-tuned designs.
• Explains the most common oscillator designs used in many RF systems.
• Provides an overview of common filter types, including low, high, bandpass, Butterworth, and Chebyshev filters.
• Provides design tools to enable students to develop a host of practically realizable filters.
• Discusses the high-frequency behavior of common circuit components, including the behavior of resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
• Helps students understand the difference of low versus high frequency responses.
• Introduces the theory of distributed parameters through a discussion on Transmission Lines. This includes line parameters, sources and load terminations, and voltage and current waves.
• Outlines the need of distributed circuit theory in today's high frequency circuits.
• Analyzes active/passive RF circuits through various network description models, especially the two-port network. This discussion also covers impedance, admittance, ABCD, h-parameter networks, and interrelations.
• Includes a number of important pedagogical features—Intersperses examples throughout each chapter, and includes self-written MATLAB routines and circuit simulations by a commercial RF software package.
• Assists students by clarifying and explaining the theoretical developments.

Product Details

• Paperback: 642 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (January 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130953237
• ISBN-13: 978-0130953230
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #813,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid for Intermediate engineers, October 25, 2001

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David Hunter (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications (Paperback)

If you're interested in learning RF Circuit design, you need this book. This book gradually steps through important sections of analysis in RF design and works its way up to amplifiers, oscillators and mixers.

I bought this book without fully knowing a large number of founding concepts of RF theory. What I found was that this book anticipates this from the reader and invests the first few chapters teaching such topics.

As you progress through the high frequency analysis and learning how to apply the smith chart, you're brought into the world of active circuits. Systematically applying earlier taught material to more advanced topics, the reader is left with a good understanding of pratical application.

Overall, this is a beginner-intermediate RF text. After completing a study of this text, you'll have enough to make basic RF circuits and subsystems. To meet the needs of real world applications, you will need a supplimentary text such as Microwave Transistor Amplifiers by Gonzalez. To back this, i point out the extreme lack of emphasis on S-parameter data, as well as only 15 pages on broadband amplifiers.

Still this is a pretty good book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a good value., May 2, 2000

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Rafael Aguiar - See all my reviews

This review is from: RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications (Paperback)

As an undergraduate student in Electronic Engineering, I am fortunate to study Radio Frequency theory using this book.

"RF Circuit Design" is clearly structured as an undergraduate text, but should also serve as a professional reference. It explains RF theory in detail. You get exactly what you need to know and a lot of other topics that are hi-tech, all of them with practical examples.

This book is a good value. Not only it is well written, but it also includes a CD with software support for the material covered in the book.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for RF design topics!, October 12, 2000

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Brian Arsenault (Leicester, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications (Paperback)

This book is perfect for the college student looking to learn about RF design or the RF professional that may be looking for insight on a particular subject.

The book is well organized and the topics flow together well. One of the best features of this book is the detailed examples that are found throughout. Each one builds on previously learned material and contains each derivation and supplemental graphics. Also, the Matlab files that are provided with the CD help you through the examples.

Team this book up with Pozar's 'Microwave Engineering' and you can tackle almost any RF design topic. Highly recommended!