RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications, Volume 1

Reinhold Ludwig, Pavel Bretchko

Prentice-Hall, 2000 - Technology & Engineering - 642 pages

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.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Transmission Line Analysis: 37
• The Smith Chart: 101

Bibliographic information

• Title: RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications, Volume 1; RF Circuit Design: Theory and Applications, Reinhold Ludwig
• Authors: Reinhold Ludwig, Pavel Bretchko
• Edition: 3, illustrated
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 2000
• ISBN: 0130953237, 9780130953230
• Length: 642 pages
• Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Electrical; Technology & Engineering / Electronics / Circuits / General; Technology & Engineering / Electronics / General; Technology & Engineering / Microwaves; Technology / Engineering / Electrical