RF Circuit Design

Christopher Bowick9780750699464, 0-7506-9946-9

Essential reading for experts in the field of RF circuit design and engineers needing a good reference. This book provides complete design procedures for multiple-pole Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel filters. It also covers capacitors, inductors, and other components with their behavior at RF frequencies discussed in detail.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half Title Page……Page 2
Title Page……Page 4
Copyright……Page 5
Preface……Page 6
Acknowledgments……Page 7
Table of Contents……Page 8
Wire……Page 10
Resistors……Page 11
Capacitors……Page 13
Inductors……Page 16
Toroids……Page 19
Toroidal Inductor Design……Page 29
Practical Winding Hints……Page 31
Some Definitions……Page 32
Resonance (Lossless Components)……Page 33
Loaded Q……Page 35
Insertion Loss……Page 37
Coupling of Resonant Circuits……Page 38
Background……Page 45
Normalization and the Low-Pass Prototype……Page 47
Filter Design……Page 48
Frequency and Impedance Scaling……Page 54
High-Pass Filter Design……Page 57
The Dual Network……Page 59
Bandpass Filter Design……Page 60
Band-Rejection Filter Design……Page 65
The Effects of Finite Q……Page 66
Background……Page 67
The L Network……Page 68
Dealing with Complex Loads……Page 69
Three-Element Matching……Page 71
Low-Q or Wideband Matching Networks……Page 73
The Smith Chart……Page 76
Impedance Matching on the Smith Chart……Page 85
Summary……Page 97
The Transistor Equivalent Circuit……Page 99
Y Parameters……Page 103
S Parameters……Page 104
Understanding RF Transistor Data Sheets……Page 115
Summary……Page 117
Transistor Biasing……Page 118
Design Using Y Parameters……Page 121
Design Using S Parameters……Page 128
Transistor Biasing……Page 151
Power Amplifier Design……Page 158
Matching to Coaxial Feedlines……Page 159
Automatic Shutdown Circuitry……Page 161
Broadband Transformers……Page 162
Practical Winding Hints……Page 163
Summary……Page 164
Appendix A……Page 165
Appendix B……Page 168
Appendix C……Page 171
Backcover……Page 178