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RF Front-End: World Class Designs
1st Edition - February 9, 2009
Editor: Janine Love
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9781856176224
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eBook ISBN:9780080950815
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All the design and development inspiration and direction a harware engineer needs in one blockbuster book! Janine Love site editor for RF Design Line,columnist, and author has…Read more
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All the design and development inspiration and direction a harware engineer needs in one blockbuster book! Janine Love site editor for RF Design Line,columnist, and author has selected the very best RF design material from the Newnes portfolio and has compiled it into this volume. The result is a book covering the gamut of RF front end design from antenna and filter design fundamentals to optimized layout techniques with a strong pragmatic emphasis. In addition to specific design techniques and practices, this book also discusses various approaches to solving RF front end design problems and how to successfully apply theory to actual design tasks. The material has been selected for its timelessness as well as for its relevance to contemporary RF front end design issues.Contents:Chapter 1 Radio waves and propagationChapter 2 RF Front End DesignChapter 3 Radio Transmission FundamentalsChapter 4 Advanced ArchitecturesChapter 5 RF Power AmplifiersChapter 6 RF AmplifiersCHAPTER 7 Basics of PA DesignChapter 8 Power AmplifiersChapter 9 RF/IF CircuitsChapter 10 FiltersChapter 11 Transmission Lines and PCBs as FiltersChapter 12 Tuning and MatchingChapter 13 Impedance MatchingChapter 14 RF Power Linearization Techniques
Hand-picked content selected by Janine Love, RF DesignLine site editor and author
Proven best design practices for antennas, filters, and layout
Case histories and design examples get you off and running on your current project
RF and Wireless Designers and Engineers; Electronics Designers and Programmers; Application Engineers
Chapter 1 Radio waves and propagation
1.1 Electric fields
1.2 Magnetic fields
1.3 Radio waves
1.4 Frequency to wavelength conversion
1.5 Radio spectrum
1.6 Polarization
1.7 How radio signals travel
1.8 Refraction, reflection and diffraction
1.9 Reflected signals
1.10 Layers above the earth
1.11 Ground wave
1.12 Skywaves
1.13 Distances and the angle of radiation
1.14 Multiple reflections
1.15 Critical frequency
1.16 MUF
1.17 LUF
1.18 Skip zone
1.19 State of the ionosphere
1.20 Fading
1.21 Ionospheric disturbances
1.22 Very low frequency propagation
1.23 VHF and above
1.24 Greater distances
1.25 Troposcatter
1.26 Sporadic E
1.27 Meteor scatter
1.28 Frequencies above 3 GHz
Chapter 2 RF Front End Design
2.1 HIGHER LEVELS OF INTEGRATION
2.2 BASIC RECEIVER ARCHITECTURES
2.3 ADC’S EFFECT ON FRONT-END DESIGN
2.4 SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIOS
2.5 CASE STUDY—MODERN COMMUNICATION RECEIVER
Chapter 3 Radio Transmission Fundamentals
3.1 Defining Transmission Capacity and Throughput
3.2 Bandwidth, Radios, and Shannon’s Law
3.3 Bandwidth Efficiency
3.4 Forward Error Correction (FEC)
3.5 Radio Regulation
3.6 Licensed Versus Unlicensed Radio Spectrum
3.7 Unlicensed Spectrum in the Rest of the World
3.8 General Difficulties in Wireless
3.9 Basic Characteristics of 802.11 Wireless LANs
3.10 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Advanced Architectures
Chapter 5 RF Power Amplifiers
5.1 Power Amplifier Class of Operation
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 References
Chapter 6 RF Amplifiers
6.1 Noise and preselectors/preamplifiers
6.2 Amplifier configurations
6.3 Transistor gain
6.4 Classification by common element
6.5 Transistor biasing
6.6 Frequency characteristics
6.7 JFET and MOSFET connections
6.8 JFET preselector
6.9 VHF receiver preselector
6.10 MOSFET preselector
6.11 Voltage-tuned receiver preselector
6.12 Broadband RF preamplifier for VLF, LF and AM BCB
6.13 Push-pull RF amplifiers
6.14 Broadband RF amplifier (50 ohm input and output)