Provides researchers and engineers with a complete set of modeling, design, and implementation tools for tackling the newest IC technologies
Revised and completely updated, RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications, Second Edition is a unique, state-of-the-art guide to wireless integrated circuit design that provides researchers and engineers with a complete set of modeling, design, and implementation tools for tackling even the newest IC technologies. It emphasizes practical design solutions for high-performance devices and circuitry, incorporating ample examples of novel and clever circuits from high-profile companies.
Complete with excellent appendices containing working models and CAD-based applications, this powerful one-stop resource:
- Covers the entire area of circuit design for wireless applications
- Discusses the complete system for which circuits are designed as well as the device technologies on which the devices and circuits are based
- Presents theory as well as practical issues
- Introduces wireless systems and modulation types
- Takes a systematic approach that differentiates between designing for battery-operated devices and base-station design
RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications, Second Edition is an indispensable tool for circuit designers; engineers who design wireless communications systems; and researchers in semiconductor technologies, telecommunications, and wireless transmission systems.
About the Author: ULRICH L. ROHDE, PhD, Dr.-ing habil., is Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corporation; a partner of Rohde & Schwarz; and Professor of Microwave and RF Technology at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
MATTHIAS RUDOLPH, PhD, Dr.-ing, is the Ulrich L. Rohde Professor for RF and Microwave Techniques at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany. He worked previously at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) in charge of GaAs semiconductor nonlinearity and noise modeling.