Practical RF Handbook

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New sections and major updates in the third edition include: RF ICs, DBMs, SAW filters, integrated power amplifier modules, active arrays, use of network analysers, and a completely new chapter on digital filtering. *Gives readers the inside track in the RF circuit design industry from a leading design guru *Discusses the cutting-edge technology of the fast-moving world of communications electronics *RF is an extremely hot area in electronics design, providing the technology for the wireless revolution, including mobile phones and Bluetooth Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Resistance and resistors......Page 14 Capacitors......Page 15 Inductors and transformers......Page 19 Passive circuits......Page 22 2 RF transmission lines......Page 31 3 RF transformers......Page 36 4 Couplers, hybrids and directional couplers......Page 53 5 Active components for RF uses......Page 62 6 RF small- signal circuitry......Page 80 7 Modulation and demodulation......Page 91 8 Oscillators......Page 109 Safety hazards to be considered......Page 135 Levellers, VSWR protection, RF routing switches......Page 136 Low- pass filter design......Page 137 Discrete PA stages......Page 140 10 Transmitters and receivers......Page 161 11 Advanced architectures......Page 176 12 Propagation......Page 184 13 Antennas......Page 194 14 Attenuators and equalizers......Page 212 15 Measurements......Page 217 Spectrum and network analysers......Page 218 Other instruments......Page 220 ( i) Series parallel equivalents......Page 227 ( iv) Designing lumped component matching using the Smith Chart. ( Reproduced by courtesy of GEC Plessey Semiconductors Ltd)......Page 228 S- Parameters and Transformations......Page 233 Useful scattering parameters relationships......Page 234 ( i) Design......Page 238 Reduction of VSWR by matched attenuators......Page 239 A4 Universal resonance curve......Page 240 A5 RF cables......Page 241 A6 Wire gauges and related information......Page 245 A7 Ferrite manufacturers......Page 248 A8 Types of modulation classification......Page 249 A9 Quartz crystals......Page 251 3 Pole......Page 253 5 Pole......Page 255 6 pole Loss = Ap at 0 Hz......Page 257 6 pole Loss = 0 dB at 0 Hz......Page 259 7 Pole......Page 261 9 pole......Page 263 Sources of EMC problems and their containment......Page 265 E- M wave hits metallic barrier......Page 266 Absorption loss......Page 267 Reflection loss in the near field......Page 268 Screen materials......Page 271 Gaps and holes in screens......Page 272 Seams and joints......Page 273 Annex 1: ITU- R Recommendations and Reports......Page 274 Annexe 1: Radio frequency spectrum management in the UK ( part of Region 1)......Page 277 Annexe 2: Radio frequency spectrum management in the US ( part of Region 2)......Page 278 A14 SRDs ( Short Range Devices)......Page 281 Index......Page 286