RF and Microwave Circuits, Measurements, and Modeling

Mike Golio, Janet Golio, Mike Golio, Janet Golio

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780849372186
• eBook ISBN: 9781420006704
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Bauingenieurwesen

Highlighting the challenges RF and microwave circuit designers face in their day-to-day tasks, RF and Microwave Circuits, Measurements, and Modeling explores RF and microwave circuit designs in terms of performance and critical design specifications. The book discusses transmitters and receivers first in terms of functional circuit block and then examines each block individually. Separate articles consider fundamental amplifier issues, low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers for handset applications and high power, power amplifiers. Additional chapters cover other circuit functions including oscillators, mixers, modulators, phase locked loops, filters and multiplexers.

New chapters discuss high-power PAs, bit error rate testing, and nonlinear modeling of heterojunction bipolar transistors, while other chapters feature new and updated material that reflects recent progress in such areas as high-volume testing, transmitters and receivers, and CAD tools.

The unique behavior and requirements associated with RF and microwave systems establishes a need for unique and complex models and simulation tools. The required toolset for a microwave circuit designer includes unique device models, both 2D and 3D electromagnetic simulators, as well as frequency domain based small signal and large signal circuit and system simulators. This unique suite of tools requires a design procedure that is also distinctive. This book examines not only the distinct design tools of the microwave circuit designer, but also the design procedures that must be followed to use them effectively.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Editors
• Advisory Board
• Contributors
• Introduction to Microwaves and RF
• Chapter 1. Overview of Microwave Engineering
• Chapter 2. Linear Measurements
• Chapter 3. Network Analyzer Calibration
• Chapter 4. Absolute Magnitued and Phae Calibrations*
• Chapter 5. Noise Measurements
• Chapter 6. Nonlinear Microwave Measurement and Characterization
• Chapter 7. Theory of High-Power Load-Pull Characterization for RF and Microwave Transistors
• Chapter 8. Pulsed Measurements
• Chapter 9. Microwave On-Wafer Test
• Chapter 10. High Volume Microwave Test
• Chapter 11. Large Signal Network Analysis/Waveform Measurements
• Chapter 12. Receivers
• Chapter 13. Transmitters
• Chapter 14. Low Noise Amplifier Design
• Chapter 15. Microwave Mixer Design
• Chapter 16. Modulation and Demodulation Circuitry
• Chapter 17. Power Amplifier Fundamentals
• Chapter 18. Handset Power Amplifier Design
• Chapter 19. Class A Amplifiers
• Chapter 20. High Power Amplifiers
• Chapter 21. Oscillator Circuits
• Chapter 22. Phase Locked Loop Design
• Chapter 23. Filters and Multiplexers
• Chapter 24. RF Switches
• Chapter 25. Monolithic Microwave IC Technology
• Chapter 26. Bringing RFICs to the Market
• Chapter 27. System Simulation
• Chapter 28. Numerical Techniques for the Analysis and Design of RF/Microwave Structures
• Chapter 29. Computer Aided Design of Passive Components
• Chapter 30. Nonlinear RF and Microwave Circuit Analysis
• Chapter 31. Computer Aided Design (CAD) of Microwave Circuitry
• Chapter 32. Nonlinear Transistor Modeling for Cicruit Simulation
• Chapter 33. Behavioral Modeling of Microwave Power Amplifiers
• Chapter 34. Technnology CAD
• Appendix A: Mathematicss, Symbols, and Physical Constants
• Appendix B: Microwave Engineering Appendix
• Index
• Back cover