High Frequency Circuit Engineering

In a translation originally published by Expert-Verlag and Technical Academy of Esslingen and based on courses taught there, eight German engineers discuss the theory and practice of radio-frequency engineering in the field of wireless communications. Focusing on computer supported problem solving, the authors discuss network parameters, CAD programs, noise measurement, and transistor circuits. The text is illustrated by sample calculations and design examples to illustrate techniques. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A transistor-level, design-intensive overview of high speed and high frequency monolithic integrated circuits for wireless and broadband systems from 2 GHz to 200 GHz, this comprehensive text covers high-speed, RF, mm-wave, and optical fibre circuits using nanoscale CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, and III-V technologies. Step-by-step design methodologies, end-of chapter problems, and practical simulation and design projects are provided, making this an ideal resource for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in circuit design. With an emphasis on device-circuit topology interaction and optimization, it gives circuit designers and students alike an in-depth understanding of device structures and process limitations affecting circuit performance.

This book focuses on components such as filters, transformers, amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators. Even the phase lock loop chapter (the last in the book) is oriented toward practical circuit design, in contrast to the more systems orientation of most communication texts.

The second edition of the High Frequency Circuit Design is a unique book in the sense that it uses a free software (LTspice) to construct the schematic diagram and run the circuit simulation to find the circuit response. It also uses a low-cost software (MATLAB) to post process the simulated data. The high frequency circuit design book introduces not only a solid understanding of the high frequency Concepts and Components such as, Network Parameters, Transmission Lines, Resonant Circuits Filter Design, Discrete and Distributed Impedance Matching Circuits, Maximum Gain and Low Noise Amplifiers, but more importantly it shows how to use design tools to analyze, synthesize, tune, and optimize these essential components in a design flow as practiced in industry.The high frequency book is also valuable in that it marries the high frequency circuit design theory with many practical design examples. Learning the fundamental theory of the high frequency circuit design with the practical application of low-cost software will broaden the student's potential for carrier opportunists.

With the increased use of mobile phones and computer wireless techniques, a need has developed for a book which provides students and industry with expertise in radio and microwave engineering. This important text has been written with these aims in mind. *Provides a comprehensive course in radio and microwave engineering *Includes CD-ROM, containing the CAD package PUFF 2.1 for construction and evaluation of circuits; and a comprehensive section on practical aspects of design *Written by an experienced author, in a clear and easy-to-follow style *Contains a variety of examples and self-test questions with model answers The material covers transmission lines, scattering parameters, couplers, amplifiers, oscillators and phase-locked loops in a novel way by introducing examples from daily life prior to the introduction of the theory. Microwave tools such as Smith charts, scattering parameters and signal flow diagrams are dealt with thoroughly and are fully integrated in the numerous examples throughout the text and with PUFF. High Frequency and Microwave Engineering is intended as an advanced undergraduate text for students of electrical and communication engineering, and is also eminently suitable for self-study and as a manual for those in the industry wishing to update their engineering skills. Provides a comprehensive course in radio and microwave engineering Contains many examples and self-test questions with model answers

This textbook is an introduction to microwave engineering. The scope of this book extends from topics for a first course in electrical engineering, in which impedances are analyzed using complex numbers, through the introduction of transmission lines that are analyzed using the Smith Chart, and on to graduate level subjects, such as equivalent circuits for obstacles in hollow waveguides, analyzed using Green’s Functions. This book is a virtual encyclopedia of circuit design methods. Despite the complexity, topics are presented in a conversational manner for ease of comprehension. The book is not only an excellent text at the undergraduate and graduate levels, but is as well a detailed reference for the practicing engineer. Consider how well informed an engineer will be who has become familiar with these topics as treated in High Frequency Techniques: (in order of presentation) Brief history of wireless (radio) and the Morse code U.S. Radio Frequency Allocations Introduction to vectors AC analysis and why complex numbers and impedance are used Circuit and antenna reciprocity Decibel measure Maximum power transfer Skin effect Computer simulation and optimization of networks LC matching of one impedance to another Coupled Resonators Uniform transmission lines for propagation VSWR, return Loss and mismatch error The Telegrapher Equations (derived) Phase and Group Velocities The Impedance Transformation Equation for lines (derived) Fano’s and Bode’s matching limits The Smith Chart (derived) Slotted Line impedance measurement Constant Q circles on the Smith Chart Approximating a transmission line with lumped L’s and C’s ABCD, Z, Y and Scattering matrix analysis methods for circuits Statistical Design and Yield Analysis of products Electromagnetic Fields Gauss’s Law Vector Dot Product, Divergence and Curl Static Potential and Gradient Ampere’s Law and Vector Curl Maxwell’s Equations and their visualization The Laplacian Rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinates Skin Effect The Wave Equation The Helmholtz Equations Plane Propagating Waves Rayleigh Fading Circular (elliptic) Polarization Poynting’s Theorem EM fields on Transmission Lines Calculating the impedance of coaxial lines Calculating and visualizing the fields in waveguides Propagation constants and waveguide modes The Taylor Series Expansion Fourier Series and Green’s Functions Higher order modes and how to suppress them Vector Potential and Retarded Potentials Wire and aperture antennas Radio propagation and path loss Electromagnetic computer simulation of structures Directional couplers The Rat Race Hybrid Even and Odd Mode Analysis applied to the backward wave coupler Network analyzer impedance and transmission measurements Two-port Scattering Parameters (s matrix) The Hybrid Ring coupler The Wilkinson power divider Filter design: Butterworth, Maximally flat & Tchebyscheff responses Filter Q Diplexer, Bandpass and Elliptic filters Richard’s Transformation & Kuroda’s Identities Mumford’s transmission line stub filters Transistor Amplifier Design: gain, biasing, stability, and conjugate matching Noise in systems, noise figure of an amplifier cascade Amplifier non-linearity, and spurious free dynamic range Statistical Design and Yield Analysis

Die Technologie komplementärer Metalloxid-Halbleiter (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor, CMOS) kommt bei der Fertigung integrierter Schaltkreise zum Einsatz. In diesem Fachbuch werden Theorie, Analyse, Eigenschaften (Hochfrequenz/Hochgeschwindigkeit) und Anwendungen von Leiterplatten-Übertragungsleitungen, die in integrierten Schaltkreisen und Systemen verwendet werden, ausführlich behandelt. Weitere Themen sind Anwendungen in allen Bereichen der Hochfrequenztechnik, einschließlich drahtlose Kommunikation, Optik und Computer. Das Fachbuch ist durch das Lösungshandbuch ideal für Studenten im höheren Grundstudium, Ingenieure für Hochfrequenz-Mikrowellentechnik, Optikingenieure, Ingenieure für Festkörperbauelemente und für Computeringenieure.

This book is aimed at both practising and postgraduate engineers who are interested in the particular problems of high-frequency circuit design. It covers network parameters and how to work with them, various approaches to the use of conductors, and it introduces a large number of circuits using active devices (transistors). It also deals extensively with computer supported problem solving, both with bespoke and off-the-shelf commercial software on PC or mainframe hosts. The problems of compatibility and noise are dealt with practically and in detail. There are chapters on high-frequency conductors, HF circuits with power transistors, unipolar and bipolar transistors in power stages, computer design and optimisation