News and Information from Besser Associates •September 2007
In this issue:
- Sign Up Now for Free Webinars
- Next Webinar Series: RF Fundamentals
- New Book on DSP Techniques
- New Course Location - Baltimore October 15-19
- Upcoming Courses - Dallas TX this November
Sign Up Now for Free Webinars
Horizon House Publications announces an alliance between Microwave Journal and Besser Associates that will provide microwave working professionals and students with a series of free on-line courses based on RF/microwave theory and techniques. Each installment will be presented by a Besser Associates instructor and will run for approximately 45 minutes followed by a 15-minute question and answer period to be moderated by an editor from Microwave Journal. Registered participants can view the presentation live during its scheduled webcast or view the recorded session on the Microwave Journal hosted webinar archive.
“Besser Associates views this collaboration with Microwave Journal as an excellent compliment to our existing paid webinar series,” said Jeff Lange, president of Besser Associates. “Microwave Journal is an industry-standard and well respected resource for microwave-related information. By teaming with them, we will be able to provide an excellent glimpse at what our full on-line Training courses offer to a wide range of engineers that we may never have been able to reach.”
The series is scheduled to begin September 18, 2007, and will run monthly. This month...
RF Fundamentals - Graphical design techniques and the Smith Chart
Featuring Les Besser, Special Instructor
Moderated by
David Vye, Technical Editor, Microwave Journal
Specialized techniques that are employed to work with circuits at higher frequencies including S-parameters, the Smith Chart, graphical design techniques and matching networks. Visit the registration page for the full outline and to sign up online.
Next Webinar Series: RF Fundamentals
If you want to learn more about RF Techniques beyond what is presented in the upcoming Smith Chart webinar, then the RF Fundamentals webinar series is for you! This course is basically the equivalent of one full day's worth of material spread out over five 90-minute sessions (Monday through Friday). Instead of traveling to the course location, you just log in from any computer with a high-speed internet connection at the time that the course starts (9AM Pacific Time). Now you can learn about RF, ask questions, view CAE examples on the instructor's computer, all with a minimal interruption in your daily schedule. The series runs September 24-28, shortly after the free Smith Chart tutorial webinar. You can also schedule a corporate exclusive webinar series for as few as ten people - it's a convenient way to train employees whether they are all in one location or spread out at different design centers.
New Book on DSP Techniques
Besser Associates instructor Rick Lyons has edited a new book, Streamlining Digital Signal Processing - A Tricks of the Trade Guidebook. The book consists of chapters based on articles collected from the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine that have been reworked to include reader feedback and additional material that was omitted from the magazine due to space limitations. From the publisher's description:
A very different DSP book!
Tips, tricks of the trade, practical shortcuts, and clever, real-world engineering solutions you didn't learn in schoolfrom a "dream team" of experienced signal-processing professionals
The practicing engineer's need for guidance on how to make DSP work led editor Richard Lyons to create his popular "DSP Tips & Tricks" column in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Now, Streamlining Digital Signal Processing collects those articleseach originally written by a different practicing DSP engineerthat have undergone careful editorial review and incorporated feedback from the magazine's readers, and added more explanations, applications, and illustrations. These new, highly readable chapters cover an assortment of signal processing topics such as digital filtering, spectrum analysis, specialized signal generation, high-speed function approximation, and more. While rich in the specialized DSP tips and tricks that make it a valuable resource for experienced working engineers, this book also contains sufficient fundamental DSP theory and simple mathematics to make it accessible to students.
This is so much more than just another DSP textbookit bridges the theory-to-practice gap and gives practicing engineers and computer programmers the useful, real-life tips, tricks, and techniques they need to make DSP hardware and software designs operate faster, with improved accuracy and increased computational efficiency.
Rick Lyons will be presenting his DSP Made Simple for Engineers course in Baltimore this October, and in Dallas this November.
New Course Location - Baltimore October 15-19
Based on feedback from our students, we have added a new course site to this year's public course schedule. The Greenbelt, Maryland location is on the north side of the beltway, with convenient access to BWI airport. The site offers nearby hotels within walking distance, as well as a Metro station within a couple of miles for car-free access to Washington D.C. sights.
| Applied RF Techniques II | |
| Oct 15-Oct 19, 2007 | Course 003-3920 |
| Presented by Ed Niehenke | Register by 9/10/2007 and pay $1995, otherwise pay $2195  |
| Applied Design of Wireless Digital Modulation Systems | |
| Oct 15-Oct 17, 2007 | Course 161-3918 |
| Presented by Chris Potter | Register by 9/10/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| Satellite Communications | |
| Oct 15-Oct 16, 2007 | Course 174-3800 |
| Presented by Fred Ricci | Register by 9/10/2007 and pay $795, otherwise pay $895 |
| Broadband Wireless Communications: 3G/4G, WLAN and WPAN Technology, Including HSDPA, 3.9G, IEEE 802.11, 15, 16, and HIPERLAN2 | |
| Oct 15-Oct 19, 2007 | Course 184-3797 |
| Presented by Savo Glisic | Register by 9/10/2007 and pay $1995, otherwise pay $2195 |
| DSP Made Simple for Engineers | |
| Oct 17-Oct 19, 2007 | Course 027-3782 |
| Presented by Rick Lyons | Register by 9/10/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| IEEE 802.11 Operations | |
| Oct 17-Oct 19, 2007 | Course 153-3917 |
| Presented by Robert K. Morrow | Register by 9/10/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
Upcoming Courses - Dallas TX this November
Our course program will return to Dallas, Texas this November with 11 courses on RF and Wireless. The Dallas location features convenient flights to DFW airport and hotel accommodations within walking distance to the course site.
| Applied RF Techniques I | |
| Nov 12-Nov 16, 2007 | Course 001-3785 |
| Presented by Rick Fornes | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1995, otherwise pay $2195 |
| DSP Made Simple for Engineers | |
| Nov 12-Nov 14, 2007 | Course 027-3784 |
| Presented by Rick Lyons | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| RF Transceiver Architecture, Design and Evaluation | |
| Nov 12-Nov 16, 2007 | Course 031-3786 |
| Presented by Ed Niehenke | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1995, otherwise pay $2195 |
| RF CMOS Design | |
| Nov 12-Nov 13, 2007 | Course 084-3790 |
| Presented by James Young | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $795, otherwise pay $895 |
| RFID Made Simple | |
| Nov 12-Nov 13, 2007 | Course 168-3879 |
| Presented by Al Scott | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $795, otherwise pay $895 |
| Semiconductor Device Physics for RF Design | |
| Nov 12-Nov 14, 2007 | Course 183-3792 |
| Presented by Bob Froelich | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| Short Range Wireless Networks | |
| Nov 13-Nov 16, 2007 | Course 085-3794 |
| Presented by Robert K. Morrow | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1595, otherwise pay $1695 |
| Frequency Synthesis and Phase-Locked Loop Design | |
| Nov 14-Nov 16, 2007 | Course 052-3787 |
| Presented by Eric Drucker | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| WiMAX Broadband Wireless Access | |
| Nov 14-Nov 16, 2007 | Course 176-3795 |
| Presented by Douglas H. Morais | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) Design | |
| Nov 14-Nov 16, 2007 | Course 181-3793 |
| Presented by Ali Darwish | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| GSM Test and Measurement: 2.5G and beyond | |
| Nov 14-Nov 16, 2007 | Course 189-3878 |
| Presented by Al Scott and Rex Frobenius | Register by 10/8/2007 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
