Practical RF Handbook

✍ Scribed by Ian Hickman EUR.ING BSc Hons C. Eng MIEE MIEEE

• Publisher: Newnes
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Series: EDN Series for Design Engineers
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

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