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RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications

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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.

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.

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!

I think this book is practically the bible for anyone looking into designing radios. Using the material covered in this book, I've built three functioning transcievers. I started as a amateur, knowing the rock-bottom basics of circuit design, and steadily built increasingly more complex prototypes, until I worked up to a 50 watt transciever operating on 3.80512 GHz.

Ok text, but not the best. Plenty of good examples are provided, but there isn't enough theory or explanation associated with them. It's not good to try and mimic a worked problem without a proper understanding of the technique used or the principles behind it. I find myself constantly referencing other texts to make sense of this one (undergrad/grad course). I'm not sure what the options are, but there's got to be something a bit better than this. Pozar's text on microwave engineering was of significantly better quality (although it cannot be used to replace this one).

I'm probably a bit biased with this review, seeing as I learned RF design using this text in a course taught by the author. However, I really feel that it is an excellent introduction to the material. The progression through the book is well thought out and easily understandable. A basic knowledge of E/M fields theory is assumed, however. Overall though, for someone who wants an introduction to RF design and wants a book that clearly goes through all the steps in deriving each progressive equation, this book is an excellent choice.

This is a solid book for fundamental understanding of RF circuit design and the implications of distributed theory. M-files are very useful for personal calculations in homebrew designs. Book is built around a fundamental understanding of material presented by Ulaby in his book Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics. I would recommend both books for anyone trying to understand how to design RF circuits. I also recommend this combination of sources due to the fact the Prof. Ludwig presented the material in this fasion in his RF design classes at Worcester Polytech, in good old Atwater-Kent... Errors may be present in some of his examples, but many high level textbooks contain errors especially in early editions; my class pointed out many as we were the first group to be taught from the book and hopefully they will be corrected in a later edition. The man certainly knows what he is talking about especially when it comes to MRI field coil design. This book will assume you are familiar with complex numbers, basic EM wave propagation, and will make heavy use of matrix oriented math. MatLAB is a must, but included m-files will aid significantly in plotting Smith Charts and ultimately in matching network design. Only 4 stars because I feel this book needs to be teamed up with Ulaby's book to be complete if your not completely familiar with high frequency analysis.

I ordered this book as the used one for the price well below 50% of the new book. The seller described the book condition "as new". The book was in fact "new", in completely pristine condition. The CD attached to the book was still placed in the cover that was not yet open. I like the way the book is written and the selected topics that are treated. It is not to overwhelmingly mathematical, but is rather concentrating on the practical aspects of the rf/microwave design.
I received the information about shipment of the product and it came well before the estimated delivery date. I am very satisfied with the seller service.

The book starts every chapter with good start but ends each chapter with so so. I guess the authors start each chapter with great enthusiasm and then lose it towards the end chapter. The book has some mistakes in the worked example, as simple as transforming impeadance to admittance and vice versa. It has also other rigorous mathematical mishap.
I do recommend it but not to starters since it could easily confuse . I hope the authors revise it and correct the mistakes and carry the enthusiasm to the end of each chapter.

If the book has soft cover it should be package in deferent way i.e. free space inside the package should be eliminated. It can be achieved using bubbles bag.
If the free space inside the package will not be eliminated the book cover will be destroyed. This happened in my situation, the book that I have ordered was slightly twisted.

Regards,

Piotr Grzelka