Customer Reviews

Digital Techniques in Frequency Synthesis

This book mainly focus on two types of frequency synthesis : DDS and PLL Fractional-N synthesizer, (unfortunatly only one chapter, ch.5). The idea is good, but more improvement should be done about it to make it a good teach book.

The style used is brief but unfortunatly some typographic mistakes remain which make it difficult to follow some explications:
Mathematic formula are uncomplete, some graphics have only a short caption which is not explicite enough, and for some chapter the bilbiographic references are not complete (only the name of the author for example).
No ISBN are mentioned
Due to this lack, a second edition would be strongly appreciated.

For chapter 10, unlike Best -pll reference, no program is directly attached to the book, and you should contact the author to obtain Qbasic files, which is far from comonly used as (window application/dos, or a matlab-toolbox format.
No ftp site is mentioned.

This book is an addition material to classic PLL-books (Best, Rohde), but one can not expect it to be used as primary material for a course for example for the moment.
Finally, the price of the material is high considering the content. 60 $ is a lot for 300 pages + a reprint of one article !!