Practical RF Handbook, Third Edition

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

• Publisher: Newnes
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Series: EDN Series for Design Engineers
• Edition: 3
• 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
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Passive components and circuits
Resistance and resistors
Capacitors
Inductors and transformers
Passive circuits
2 RF transmission lines
3 RF transformers
4 Couplers, hybrids and directional couplers
5 Active components for RF uses
6 RF small- signal circuitry
7 Modulation and demodulation
8 Oscillators
9 RF power amplifiers
Safety hazards to be considered
First design decisions
Levellers, VSWR protection, RF routing switches
Starting the design
Low- pass filter design
Discrete PA stages
10 Transmitters and receivers
11 Advanced architectures
12 Propagation
13 Antennas
14 Attenuators and equalizers
Measurements on CW signals
15 Measurements
Modulation measurements
Spectrum and network analysers
Other instruments
A1 Useful relationships
( i) Series parallel equivalents
( ii) Delta/ star equivalence
( iii) Maximum power theorem
( iv) Designing lumped component matching using the Smith Chart. ( Reproduced by courtesy of GEC Plessey Semiconductors Ltd)
A2 S- Parameters
S- Parameters and Transformations
Useful scattering parameters relationships
A3 Attenuators ( pads)
( i) Design
( ii) Use to improve matching
Reduction of VSWR by matched attenuators
A4 Universal resonance curve
A5 RF cables
A6 Wire gauges and related information
A7 Ferrite manufacturers
A8 Types of modulation classification
A9 Quartz crystals
A10 Elliptic filters
3 Pole
5 Pole
6 pole Loss = Ap at 0 Hz
6 pole Loss = 0 dB at 0 Hz
7 Pole
9 pole
A11 Screening
The need to control EMC
Sources of EMC problems and their containment
E- M wave hits metallic barrier
Absorption loss
Reflection loss ( plane wave)
Combined absorption and reflection loss for plane waves
Reflection loss in the near field
Screen materials
Integrity of a screened enclosure
Gaps and holes in screens
Seams and joints
A12 Worldwide minimum external noise levels
Annex 1: ITU- R Recommendations and Reports
A13 Frequency allocations
Annexe 1: Radio frequency spectrum management in the UK ( part of Region 1)
UK Radio Interface Requirements
Annexe 2: Radio frequency spectrum management in the US ( part of Region 2)
A14 SRDs ( Short Range Devices)
Index