The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Second Edition

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This expanded and thoroughly revised edition of Thomas H. Lee's acclaimed guide to the design of gigahertz RF integrated circuits features a completely new chapter on the principles of wireless systems. The chapters on low-noise amplifiers, oscillators and phase noise have been significantly expanded as well. The chapter on architectures now contains several examples of complete chip designs that bring together all the various theoretical and practical elements involved in producing a prototype chip. First Edition Hb (1998): 0-521-63061-4 First Edition Pb (1998); 0-521-63922-0

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An excellent book for those familiar with the subject.......2007-08-30

As a 3rd year graduate student in the field, I find Prof. Lee's Design of CMOS RFIC's to be excellent follow-up text for those who have the requisite background in circuit analysis and design techniques. This book assumes the reader already has intimate familiarity with the methods of circuit analysis, so it does not spend much time on the basic stuff, like deriving the response of standard circuit topologies. The discussion in the text is instead focused towards developing an intuitive understanding of the systems described. Instead of giving a dry mathematical treatment, Prof. Lee focuses on explaining the mathematical results derived and gives usually insightful comments on their importance and where they come from. The chapter on RLC circuits particularly reflects this. The second edition is well expanded from the first edition and includes an excellent treatment of LNAs, oscillators and phase noise in particular. The complete system examples are very good for helping the reader see the "big picture" and why individual circuits are designed the way they are.
Those not already familiar with circuits will be confused by this book however, because it takes for granted that the reader has an intuition for circuits and systems. Without it the reader can't really understand and appreciate the intuitive gems that Lee offers. All in all, this book needs to be on the desk of any integrated circuit designer. It sure is for everyone in my research group!

Not a bad book.......2007-03-04

This book is fun to read. The language is informal and at high school level. Not your typical design book, but it can be used as a bed time story :-)

This is a "Cookbook" or "For Dummy"........2007-02-23

This book is written is in "cookbook" or "for dummy" style: easy to read, a little verbose, not mathematically rigid. I gave it 3 stars because I think it is still a good book, however, unsuitable as a textbook for first-time learners.

This book is good for professional engineers who have the background to take on the cues from the book text. The new Lee-Hajimiri phase noise theory is supposed to be an important part of the book, however, I understand it better after reading it, but still do not know how to calculate a phase noise using it for a specific circuit. B. Razavi's RF Microelectronics is better in terms of this in the first few chapters, but later on he just did the same by leaping forward on details.

The best textbook for first-time learners and students, IMHO, should be written with plenty of examples and step-by-step mathematically correct solutions. It is true that the examples may be too simplied or ideal compared with real circuits, but I gain confidence and essential skills to do more detailed work later.

I learnt R. Schaumann's "Analog Filter Design (2nd ed)" this way using the companion solution manual. The solutions gave step-by-step procedures and I think I learnt more from them than reading the text. I have yet to find a good RF Circuit design book on the market.

No circuit analysis at ALL.......2006-08-03

This book was used for an upper level graduate course at my university. Unfortunately, all of the homeworks used questions from this textbook, and we were not able to complete ANY of them using the analysis (or lack there of) covered in this text. We struggled to find answers in this book, but eventually found the answers using other textbooks or notes we gained from other professors and classes.

This goes to highlight the troubling situation in RF analysis: There is NO good textbook that covers this area, but there are many textbooks that are good in certain aspects of RF design. Lee focus's entirely too much on theory and intuition, and never enough on actual practice and calculations. At one point, to get away from actually deriving an answer (which my class has become convinced that he does not know how to do) he simply says "since this is not a book on circuit theory, we will not go into the derivations here but leave it to the reader". This kind of attitude is not acceptable when learning electronics, and the kind of "trial and error" practice promoted by his kind of teaching will not produce any real engineers without the aid of another textbook or course.

Lee's disdain for rigor is antithetical to the competent practice of engineering.......2006-07-29

Professor Lee's disdain for rigorous analysis, explicitly stated in numerous places in this book, sets a poor example for his students and the engineering community.

On p. 72 we see the most explicit statement of this attitude: "The fussy reader will note that, strictly speaking, the integral is improper. We don't worry about such minor details; we're engineers. Thus, the integral of sine is cosine and that's that."

In this particular case, the result obtained is correct, so Dr. Lee's neglect of rigor hasn't resulted in an error. It demonstrates an attitude, however, that is inimical to the competent practice of engineering, in which rigorous mathematical analysis plays a very significant role. When rigor is discarded, the results will be correct some of the time, but they will also be incorrect some of the time.

An example where the lack of rigor I described leads to an incorrect result can be found in another of Dr. Lee's publications [1]. Here the authors observe that for a certain feedback system with two loops, one of the error signals has the form e=X/(1+H(s)), which looks a lot like the error signal for a single loop, e=X/(1+T(s)). The authors conclude that H(s) must be an "effective loop transmission" describing the stability of the two loop system, which a more rigorous analysis shows to be incorrect.

While intuition and rules of thumb are certainly useful in engineering, Dr. Lee makes a fetish of these shortcuts. His style lacks the rigor that one would expect from a engineering textbook, and then adds insult to injury by making the bizarre claim that the rigor is unnecessary.

[1] "Automatic phase alignment for a fully integrated Cartesian feedback power amplifier system", Dawson, J.L., Lee, T.H., Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of, Volume 38, Issue 12, Dec 2003 Page(s):2269 - 2279.

Foundation Of Interconnect And Microstrip Design

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Foundation Of Interconnect And Microstrip Design
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Building on the success of the previous two editions Foundations of
Interconnect and Microstrip Design offers extensive new, updated and
revised material based upon the latest research. In addition to the
comprehensive information on designing microstrip circuits there is an
entirely new chapter on coplanar waveguide (CPW) design and substantial
new material on designing gigahertz-rate digital interconnects both on and
off chip.
Strongly design-oriented, this third edition provides the reader with a
fundamental understanding of this fast expanding field making it a definitive
source for professional engineers and researchers and an indispensable
reference for senior students in electronic engineering.
* Presents a unified treatment of high speed digital interconnect and microwave transmission line design
* Provides up-to-date interconnect design information for gigshertz digital ICs, RFICs, MICs and MMICs
* Features design information on dielectric resonators for filters and oscillators
* Explains design formulas and procedures for numerous types of circuits
* Discusses techniques suitable for rapid CAE implementation
* Includes exhaustive appendices covering key concepts, transmission line thory, Q-factor analysis, scattering parameter theory, and interconnect modelling in circuit simulators

Practical RF Circuit Design for Modern Wireless Systems Vol. II (Artech House Microwave Library)

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A must read for a microwave practician
Finally a practical RF book

Practical RF Circuit Design for Modern Wireless Systems Vol. II (Artech House Microwave Library)
Rowan Gilmore , and Les Besser
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This review appeared in High Frequency Electronics.......2004-03-09

These books were written by two well-known lectures in the RF/MW field with many years of teaching experience. Their goal was to provide a practical exposition of circuit design in the RF/MW field that appealed to students, academicians, and design engineers. They certainly succeeded. The reader will find that fundamental and advanced principles are properly explained with emphasis in CAD techniques. While the mathematical manipulations are kept to a minimum, the associated results are well referenced and extensively discussed.

Volume I:
This volume focuses mainly on passive circuits and systems. The first two chapters provide a review of RF/MW circuit fundamentals. The emphasis is placed on topics related to RF/MW circuits, such a resonance, series and parallel conversions, quality factor, power transfer, transmission lines, reflection coefficients, and mismatch loss. Chapter 3 describes several radio systems and illustrates how the system's specifications relate to the various individual components. Receiver's characteristics are discussed, such as receiver noise and sensitivity, nonlinearities and dynamic range, and automatic control. The chapter includes the analysis of a CDMA handset from a system point of view. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the use of S parameters, the Smith chart, impedance matching networks, and bandwidth considerations. Many impedance matching design examples are provided with their associated frequency responses. Both lumped and microstrip matching circuits are considered. Chapter 6 shows the use of CAD programs for RF/MW circuit design. This chapter underlines the major key areas in CAD, such as linear circuit analysis, electromagnetic simulation, tuning, synthesis, optimization, non-linear simulations, and statistical techniques. Passive component models are discussed in Chapter 7, which include RLC components, distributed components, transformers, crystals, dielectric resonators, and surface acoustic wave resonators. The authors show how actual parts affect the behavior of a design, and how to account for them in the final product. Chapter 8 gives an overview of passive filters and the techniques used for their design in the RF/MW area. Such topics as the Richards' transformation, Norton transformations, and Kuroda identities are discussed. Chapter 9 is an overview of the major differences and similarities between RF and high-speed digital systems.

Volume II:
This volume focuses mainly on active circuits and systems. The volume begins with a discussion of linear RF/MW amplifier design techniques. The first two chapters deal with stability conditions, stability circles and the various design techniques for transducer gain, operating power gain, and associated gain. Material in low-noise amplifier design and broadband techniques is included, as well as dc considerations. Chapter 3 discusses the modeling of the actual devices (such as BJT, GaAs, HETM, etc). Chapter 4 deals with nonlinear CAD simulations techniques, and their uses. Time and frequency domain methods are discussed and compared. A good discussion of the harmonic balance method is given, including a section on harmonic balance simulation of oscillators. Chapter 5 considers the topic of power transistor amplifiers. The categories of amplifiers are presented and the topics of bias considerations, distortion reduction and predistortion are included. The chapter includes a detailed power amplifier design. Oscillators are discussed in Chapter 6, with emphasis on the negative resistance design approach and CAD simulations. A section is devoted to the description of phase noise. Several design examples are included. An interesting example uses a ceramic resonator, another example involves a crystal resonator, and one example deals with a Colpitts VCO using a varactor diode. Chapter 7 deals with mixers and frequency multipliers. The authors discuss diodes and transistor mixers and their effect on the overall system. The final chapter gives an overview of several wireless systems.

The material covered in these two volumes extends from the basic to the advance. The texts are suitable for short courses in RF/MW circuits, since they provide a comprehensive description of the RF/MW circuit design field. They are also suitable for a course (or courses) at the senior/graduate level in the RF/MW field. The books strongly emphasize design and the use of CAD techniques. Enough information is provided in their CAD examples that the simulations can easily be implemented with one of the major CAD programs available for RF/MW circuits.

A must read for a microwave practician.......2004-02-13

This book is a must read for anyone willing to remain updated in the microwave field . It is very clearly written and has a very good balance between theoretical aspects and practical examples for today's modern times.

Finally a practical RF book.......2003-11-30

There is so much information for a practicing engineer;it will take six months to absorb the techniques described. I finally understand what causes oscillation and how I can prevent it when it shows up unexpectedly.
I also appreciate that the math is minimized to the necessary level, without lots of proofs and derivations (I had enough of that in college). What I expected--and got--are techniques I can use in my work immediately.

Optical Filter Design and Analysis: A Signal Processing Approach (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering)

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Great book for optical filter design
Nice content, but not nicely written
A practical aproach

Optical Filter Design and Analysis: A Signal Processing Approach (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering)
Christi K. Madsen , and Jian H. Zhao
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A Unique, Cutting-Edge Approach to Optical Filter Design With more and more information being transmitted over fiber-optic lines, optical filtering has become crucial to the advanced functionality of today's communications networks. Helping researchers and engineers keep pace with this rapidly evolving technology, this book presents digital processing techniques for optical filter design. This higher-level approach focuses on filter characteristics and enables readers to quickly calculate the filter response as well as tackle larger and more complex filters. The authors incorporate numerous theoretical and experimental results from the literature and discuss applications to a variety of systems-including the new wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology, which is fast becoming the preferred method for system upgrade and expansion. Special features of this book include:
* The theory underlying various architectures that can approximate any filter function
* Filter design techniques applicable to a broad range of materials systems-from silica to fiber to microelectromechanical (MEM) systems
* Design examples relevant to filters for WDM systems and planar waveguide devices
* 250 figures as well as problem sets for use in graduate-level studies

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Great book for optical filter design.......2006-11-18

Madsen and Zhao did the leading work in this field, and this is their book. It has clear equations.
If you are interesting in the digital optical signal processing, you must have this book on your shelf!

Nice content, but not nicely written.......2001-03-09

~~~~~Contents are pretty good and updated and the examples are found to be very useful.

However, the book is not well written and organized. Some expressions can only be understood by the authors themselves. The readers have to be prepared to spend much more time than they expect to figure out some minor details. Examples lack of step-by-step description. Important details are either missing or skipped in many places, assuming the readers are super-mathematicians.

The book is, I would say,~~ out of a rush-to-publish job. Looking forward to 2nd Edition, if there is one.~

A practical aproach.......2000-09-20

I find this book very useful for engineers who are involve in design and optimization of optical systems for telecommunication industry.The mathematical approach to subjects gives you the oportunity to write and customize your design programs.

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High Linearity RF Amplifier Design
Peter, B. Kenington
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Based on the author's real-world design experience in this key emerging area, this is the first single comprehensive guide to examine and directly compare all major RF power amplifier linearization techniques in detail. Packed with practical tips, more than 250 illustrations, and over 600 verified equations, the book saves you valuable design time while helping you avoid costly design errors. It covers the modeling and measurement of amplifier non-linearity, and describes the main methods for overcoming non-linearity in a wide range of applications, including:

> base stations using feedforward and predistortion

> mobile communications systems and handsets using RF or digital predistortion, cartesian loop, LINC and envelope elimination and restoration (EE&R )

> satellite systems using any of these techniques

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this is the one!.......2001-11-04

If you design (or need to know more about RF power amplifier design) you need to buy this book, period.
I have used this book as a reference time and time again, it has put me way ahead of the game in RF amp design.

Rf/ Microwave Circuit Design For Wireless Applications

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Rf/ Microwave Circuit Design For Wireless Applications
Ulrich L. Rohde
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A unique, state-of-the-art guide to wireless integrated circuit design.

With wireless technology rapidly exploding, there is a growing need for circuit design information specific to wireless applications. Presenting a single-source guidebook to this dynamic area, industry expert Ulrich Rohde and writer David Newkirk provide researchers and engineers with a complete set of modeling, design, and implementation tools for tackling even the newest IC technologies. They emphasize practical design solutions for high-performance devices and circuitry, incorporating ample examples of novel and clever circuits from high-profile companies. They also provide excellent appendices containing working models and CAD-based applications.

RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications offers:
* Introduction to wireless systems and modulation types
* A systematic approach that differentiates between designing for battery-operated devices and base-station design
* A comprehensive introduction to semiconductor technologies, from bipolar transistors to CMOS to GaAs MESFETs
* Clear guidelines for obtaining the best performance in discrete and integrated amplifier design
* Detailed analysis of available mixer circuits applicable to the wireless frequency range
* In-depth explanations of oscillator circuits, including microwave oscillators and ceramic-resonator-based oscillators
* A thorough evaluation of all components of wireless synthesizers

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A unique, state-of-the-art guide to wireless integrated circuit design. With wireless technology rapidly exploding, there is a growing need for circuit design information specific to wireless applications. Presenting a single-source guidebook to this dynamic area, industry expert Ulrich Rohde and writer David Newkirk provide researchers and engineers with a complete set of modeling, design, and implementation tools for tackling even the newest IC technologies. They emphasize practical design solutions for high-performance devices and circuitry, incorporating ample examples of novel and clever circuits from high-profile companies. They also provide excellent appendices containing working models and CAD-based applications. RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications offers: * Introduction to wireless systems and modulation types * A systematic approach that differentiates between designing for battery-operated devices and base-station design * A comprehensive introduction to semiconductor technologies, from bipolar transistors to CMOS to GaAs MESFETs * Clear guidelines for obtaining the best performance in discrete and integrated amplifier design * Detailed analysis of available mixer circuits applicable to the wireless frequency range * In-depth explanations of oscillator circuits, including microwave oscillators and ceramic-resonator-based oscillators * A thorough evaluation of all components of wireless synthesizers

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Real World Simulation.......2001-08-17

RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications

Reviewer: R Conrad from Connecticut, USA

RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications is a veritable encyclopedia for those new to the field of circuit design for wireless applications. The text introduces the reader to the impact of real world operating conditions on wireless system performance as a prelude to thorough reviews of active and passive devices and applications.

The book includes many illustrations of circuits typically found in wireless systems. The text provides proven design techniques and practical circuit-design examples based on a family of linear and nonlinear computer-aided-design (CAD) tools from Ansoft Cop. (Pittsburgh, PA).

One of the many highlights of the book is a software simulation example that accurately predicts the "real world" performance of a QPSK power amplifier (on pages 424 and 425). In addition, the treatment of push-pull power amplifier design and the analysis and application of 3-dB hybrids and Wilkinson dividers and combiners couplers are presented thoroughly and professionally.

In light of the quality of this book, I found the review titled "form without content" troubling. The author appears to resent the success of Dr. Rohde's fine career and many well-written books. It is also difficult to understand how 18 of 20 individuals found such a negative and unconstructive review helpful. More likely, the author of that negative review was his/her own best reader, and was simply responding to his or her own review in an attempt to asperse the author. Finally, one of the on-line purchasers of the book was one of the original founders of Sciteq Electronics (San Diego, CA), a firm associated with the development of the direct digital synthesizer (DDS). This alone is a strong testimony to the value of the book.

I recommend this book highly.......2000-11-15

(relayed from Dr. R. Schalter, Germany) While most two-way radio applications during the past years have been located in the frequency range of 150 MHz to 450 MHz (2 m to 70 cm), the demand for multichannel applications has pushed up both the operating frequency and the number of users per channel. Standard applications involves narrowband frequency modulation (NBFM), and therefore, the linearity and efficiency of the transmitter portion was less of a problem. The class C operation for FM provided a higher efficiency and the blocking of the adjacent channel was mostly determined by the receiver's local oscillator. Today's wireless applications are using combinations of the time-division multiplex, code-division multiplex and other complex waveforms where the requirements for linearity of the transmitter are much more stringent, while the digital coding of the transmitter signals make the design of the receiver much easier as the signal density is not very high. Traditional books did a very good job of describing these single-signal operations, while to look into all the complicated details of wireless applications, one had to find a collection of many recently published papers. I am, therefore, happy to applaud the recent book by Ulrich L. Rohde and David P. Newkirk, which is the only comprehensive study guide that covers all necessary topics very well.

After the introduction to wireless systems and their testing in Chapter 1, the authors in Chapter 2 provide an updated overview of current active designs neatly separating diodes, bipolar transistors, FETs, and even addressing parameter extractions. Most manufacturers published only limited information on the semiconductor devices and yet small power consumption and high linearity are the key issues.

Building upon this, Chapter 3 provides a variety of topics about the amplifier design, both small and large signal, and a wealth of information as to critical design.

Chapter 4, Mixer Design, is extremely well organized and a lot of forgotten information is being made available again. As in the previous chapters, we find a good balance between mathematical and practical applications.

Chapter 5, Oscillators, is probably Rohde's pet area, providing the most comprehensive summary of oscillator designs, and many of his presentations from international conferences are reflected in this. It also sheds light on both linear and nonlinear oscillator analysis. This chapter has good theoretical information for everybody.

Chapter 6, which deals with wireless synthesizers, reviews the required design procedures and lists many off-the-shelf IC-built synthesizers, as well as very high performance frequency synthesizers. The latest fractional-N-division synthesizer theory receives a detailed discussion.

The two appendices are custom tailored to obtain information about microwave transistors and are a welcomed addition to the previous chapters. Their value lies in the insight given on how to characterize modern semiconductors.

I have spent many hours with this book and its reading was similar to starting with a high tension mystery novel and it became almost impossible to put down.

I recommend this book highly to anyone who enjoys modern technology. It has become my favorite.

Dr. Robert Schalter Munich, Germany

form without content.......2000-08-21

This is the type of book commonly published by Artech House or IEEE Press. It is as if a person who was highly skilled in writing liberal arts prose finds a file cabinet abandoned by a retired engineering manager. The file cabinet is filled with a lifetime eclectic collection of magazine articles, photo copies of sections of books, and reports from subordinates, all of which were never read by the manager because of time restraints. The liberal arts person shuffles the contents together into a book without really understanding what is written. This book is strewn with tables and illustrations which are never referenced in the text. Most of the illustrations are multiple generation photocopies. Equations contain undefined terms. Critical design issues are passed over with one sentence while there is a several page mathematical derivation of the DC output impedance of a BJT. The author infers that it is not necessary to understand what you do as long as you can get the answer from a CAD program. The book perpetuates the urban legend that Gilbert invented a mixer. This topology goes back to at least 1920 and had been implemented with relays, vacuum tubes, specialized vacuum tubes, and discrete transistors. The author references Gilbert's paper which references the discrete transistor version as prior art and then shows how to make a pre-distortion circuit to add to this mixer to obtain a four quadrant linear multiplier. So much for not reading your references. Finally, the book does not explain anything very clearly. people who are not already skilled in RF will not gain any design ability from this book. They will however get a false sense of skill level that will allow them to do basic, simple designs, but not designs that push technology. That is, they could do a day late dollar short design of consumer products, but not military products.

This comment was added in 2007. It seems that Artech House and the IEEE press have become more careful in what they publish. Most of the books published recently by them are edifying to read and I have purchased and enjoyed several of them.

RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications.......2000-06-09

No single text could possible address all of the complexities of RF design for wireless systems, but RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications comes close. The text covers the design and specification of all major RF portions in a wireless system. The book contains only six chapters and two appendices, but these are information-packed chapters that in essence could serve as the basis for separate multi-day technical workshops.

Other reviews (July 2000 Microwaves & RF and June 2000 Wireless Systems Design, among others) have provided broad overviews of the book's contents. Highlights not specifically mentioned in these general reviews include:

Chapter 1 (Introduction to Wireless Circuit Design): Impact of propagation on system performance (multi-pass) and design; analyses of large signal handling; testing requirements for wireless systems.

Chapter 2 (Models for Active Devices): Calculation of IMD contributed by tuning diodes; overview of current BJT technologies; FET families and the key advantages and disadvantages of various FET technologies and comparison to SiGe transistors.

Chapter 3 (Amplifier Design with BJTs and FETs: Small signal to power amplifier design, including the calculation of heatsink requirements and evaluation of adjacent-channel power ratio (ACPR) and stability performance and includes the use of distributed elements. This is by far the largest chapter in the book, essentially equaling the information found in some texts dedicated to amplifier design.

Chapter 4 (Mixer Design): Extensive CAD analysis of passive and active mixer topologies, with many applications.

Chapter 5 (RF/Wireless Oscillators): Discrete and RFIC oscillator circuits with many examples; oscillator noise reduction through active noise feedback.

Chapter 6 (Wireless Synthesizers): Fractional-N applications and principles, including the importance of reference purity and techniques for suppressing discrete spurious outputs.

In terms of information per dollar, the book represents a real value. Many texts are available on various aspects of wireless RF engineering, usually on narrowly defined topics. RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications is the only text that provides a complete education for wireless circuit designers, by covering wireless RF engineering from semiconductor through system levels. It can be used on many different levels, from basic tutorial to advanced design concepts, depending upon the background of the reader. The book should be particularly useful for those designers tasked with learning more about an unfamiliar portion of the RF signal chain, such as antenna designers who need to know more about low-noise amplifiers.

RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications.......2000-04-27

The 900+ pages of this new book by Ulrich L. Rohde and David P. Newkirk covers a wide range of topics related to its title. It should serve as a valuable reference to all engineers working in the field of wireless systems and its related components. It also provides extensive sets of relevant up-to-date references and related patents.

The book begins with a quick overview of the radio channel and the various modulation schemes used in wireless systems, providing useful definitions of commonly used terminology. Then, switching from system level, the authors quickly progress to components and building block discussions for the rest of the book.

A detailed review of active device models (large signal and small) for various diodes, bipolar and Si and GaAs field-effect transistors are followed by SPICE-, and noise-parameter extractions, including a new modeling approach for low-voltage operation.

The most extensive chapter (260 pages) of the book deals with design considerations of RF/MW linear, low-noise, high gain and (nonlinear) power amplifiers. Several illustrative examples are given, including a wide range of commercially available device and amplifier datasheets. This chapter also covers AGC amplifiers and voltage-tuned filters.

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Modern communications technology demands smaller, faster and more efficient circuits. This book reviews the fundamentals of electromagnetism in passive and active circuit elements, highlighting various effects and potential problems in designing a new circuit. The author begins with a review of the basics - the origin of resistance, capacitance, and inductance - then progresses to more advanced topics such as passive device design and layout, resonant circuits, impedance matching, high-speed switching circuits, and parasitic coupling and isolation techniques. Using examples and applications in RF and microwave systems, the author describes transmission lines, transformers, and distributed circuits. State-of-the-art developments in Si based broadband analog, RF, microwave, and mm-wave circuits are reviewed. With up-to-date results, techniques, practical examples, illustrations and worked examples, this book will be valuable to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of electrical engineering, and practitioners in the IC design industry. Further resources for this title are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521853507.

Practical RF Circuit Design for Modern Wireless Systems, Volume I : Passive Circuits and Systems

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The first of a two-volume set, this leading-edge book takes a practical approach to RF circuit design, offering a complete understanding of the fundamental concepts you need to know and use for your work in this industry. The book lays the ground work for efficient RF circuit design in a step-by-step approach, by defining important principles and parameters and progressively introducing critical analytical tools. It helps you distinguish between RF and low frequency circuits, and offers a detailed look at a typical RF system. This is a tested and insightful book that contains answers to most of the questions practical engineers are asking. The first volume reviews various computer-aided simulation, synthesis, and optimization techniques used in modern RF and microwave design, and discusses the practical use of the graphical design tools, such as the Smith Chart.

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This review appeared in High Frequency Electronics.......2004-03-09

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This unique new book is your single resource for all issues related to intermodulation and multi-tone distortion in microwave and wireless circuits. Beginning with an overview of the general concepts of distortion in microwave and wireless devices, it delves into the theory and practical aspects of nonlinear distortion, tools for nonlinear analysis, mathematical representations of wireless circuits and devices, and design methods for minimizing distortion.

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This much-anticipated volume builds on the author's popular work, RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (Artech House, 1999), offering you a more in-depth understanding of the theory and design of RF power amplifiers. An invaluable reference tool for RF, digital and system level designers, the book enables you to efficiently design linear RF power amplifiers , and includes detailed discussions on envelope power management schemes and linearization techniques. Written by a recognized authority on PA design, this in-depth volume treats a range of power amplifier topics using readable symbolic analysis and idealized models, and follows up with CAD simulation using readily available commercial CAD tools. The work covers such vital topics as: the use of bipolar devices in conventional high efficiency PA design, the Doherty and Chireix PAs, envelope feedback, memory effects, predistortion, feedforward, and microwave PA techniques.

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second edition.......2007-05-30

The author is an expert in RF amplifiers. In this book he expands upon the ideas presented in his previous book.

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