News and Information from Besser Associates • January 2008
In this issue:
- Next Free Webcast: Balanced/Unbalanced Transformers (Baluns)
- Next Webinar: RF Fundamentals
- New Book on Signal Processing
- Upcoming Courses - San Diego February 2008
Next Free Webcast: Balanced/Unbalanced Transformers (Baluns)
The 2008 Webinar series from Microwave Journal and Besser Associates continues this month with a tutorial on Baluns. Instructor Allen Podell will present the upcoming FREE webcast on January 15 at 11AM Eastern Time. This webcast covers the design and limitations of passive baluns. We begin with the usual 1:1 and 4:1 impedance baluns, then explain their frequency limitations. This leads to techniques for obtaining better balance and unusual impedance transformations over a broad band. Don't miss out on this opportunity to see the presentation and ask questions in the Q&A session that follows. Visit the Microwave Journal Resources page for more information about the upcoming webcast, and to sign up. You can also view the recorded sessions of previous webcasts in the series.
Next Webinar: RF Fundamentals
Our next webinar course, RF Fundamentals, will be presented January 28-February 1, 2008 by Les Besser. This course provides circuit-level designers with the essential concepts needed to work effectively with high frequency electronics. Participants gain analytical, graphical, and computer-aided techniques to analyze and optimize RF circuits in practical situations. The course addresses linear active circuit design, focusing on stability, bandwidth, and noise considerations. The webinars are offered as five, 90-minute live web-conference sessions where you can ask questions and view CAD examples from the instructor's computer. Just log-in from your computer with a high speed internet connection and speakers or headphones. The amount of material covered is roughly equivalent to a one-day classroom course.
New Book on Signal Processing
Besser Associates instructor Dr. Joseph Boccuzzi has written a new book, Signal Processing for Wireless Communications. From the publisher's description, the book "...offers communications engineers an application-focused guide to the essential concepts and techniques of wireless signal processing. This comprehensive reference examines the role that key algorithms and standard migration paths play in the design and day-to-day operations of today's state-of-the-art wireless networks." Dr. Boccuzzi has updated his wireless digital communications course to reflect material in the new book. The updated course shares the same title as the book and will be offered April 8-11 in San Jose, CA. Sign up for the course and you will receive a FREE copy of the book!
Dr. Boccuzzi is a Principal Scientist designing wireless communication systems in the wireless business unit of Broadcom Corporation. His responsibilities cover the mobile station (MS, UE) and base station (BTS, NodeB) with emphasis on EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA/HSUPA & their evolution, as well as LTE (i.e. Turbo 3G) radio access technologies. He worked on the WCDMA evolution path such as supporting VoIP, MBMS, MIMO, Femto Cells, etc.
Upcoming Courses - San Diego 2008
Sign up now for our courses in San Diego, February 2008.
| Applied RF Techniques I | |
| Feb 25-Feb 29, 2008 | Course 001-3888 |
| Presented by Les Besser | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1995, otherwise pay $2195  |
| Antennas & Propagation for Wireless Communications | |
| Feb 25-Feb 27, 2008 | Course 037-3890 |
| Presented by Steven Best | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| Frequency Synthesis and Phase-Locked Loop Design | |
| Feb 25-Feb 27, 2008 | Course 052-3883 |
| Presented by Eric Drucker | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| RF CMOS Design | |
| Feb 25-Feb 26, 2008 | Course 084-3881 |
| Presented by James Young | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $795, otherwise pay $895 |
| Security for 802.11 Wireless LAN | |
| Feb 25-Feb 27, 2008 | Course 151-3885 |
| Presented by Robert K. Morrow | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1595, otherwise pay $1695 |
| Radio System Design - Theory and Practice | |
| Feb 25-Feb 29, 2008 | Course 180-3887 |
| Presented by Richard Ranson | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1995, otherwise pay $2195 |
| RF and Wireless Made Simple | |
| Feb 27-Feb 29, 2008 | Course 004-3882 |
| Presented by Al Scott | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| DSP Made Simple for Engineers | |
| Feb 27-Feb 29, 2008 | Course 027-3889 |
| Presented by Rick Lyons | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| RF and High Speed PC Board Design Fundamentals | |
| Feb 27-Feb 29, 2008 | Course 042-3886 |
| Presented by Rick Fornes | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| Designing High Efficiency RF Power Amplifiers | |
| Feb 27-Feb 29, 2008 | Course 148-3903 |
| Presented by Ed Niehenke | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
| Mobile Broadband Wireless Access | |
| Feb 27-Feb 29, 2008 | Course 195-3884 |
| Presented by Douglas H. Morais | Register by 1/21/2008 and pay $1295, otherwise pay $1395 |
