RF Circuit Design: Nonlinear Devices
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-AppCAD
Agilent Technologies
Free software for various RF related calculations, such as DC biasing, cascaded noise, stripline parameters, etc.
-RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications
Steve Cripps
Newly revised and updated edition of the best-selling book on power amplifier design. This book is featured as a free textbook for public offerings of Steve Cripps Advanced Power Amplifiers course.
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-Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design
Steve Cripps
This much-anticipated volume builds on the author's popular work, RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (Artech House, 1999), offering you a more in-depth understanding of the theory and design of RF power amplifiers. An invaluable reference tool for RF, digital and system level designers, the book enables you to efficiently design linear RF power amplifiers , and includes detailed discussions on envelope power management schemes and linearization techniques. Written by a recognized authority on PA design, this in-depth volume treats a range of power amplifier topics using readable symbolic analysis and idealized models, and follows up with CAD simulation using readily available commercial CAD tools. The work covers such vital topics as: the use of bipolar devices in conventional high efficiency PA design, the Doherty and Chireix PAs, envelope feedback, memory effects, predistortion, feedforward, and microwave PA techniques.
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-Practical RF Circuit Design for Modern Wireless Systems Vol. 2: Active Circuits and Systems
Rowan Gilmore and Les Besser
The second of two authoritative, highly practical volumes, this hands-on resource covers sctive and nonlinear circuits and introduces advanced topics in RF circuit and system design. Based on the extensive number of renowned RF design courses taught around the world by the authors, the book opens with an introduction to active linear circuits and RF stability analysis, including circuit stabilization techniques, and covers the design of low-noise and small-signal broadband amplifiers. It continues with an overview of modern RF devices and their modeling, explores nonlinear circuit simulation techniques such as harmonic balance, and extensively illustrates the use of modern CAD tools in active circuit design throughout. By applying these nonlinear design techniques, engineers learn the theory behind high-power RF transistor amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, and frequency multipliers, and gain an intuitive understanding of their operation. Various active and passive dc bias methods are also covered, focusing on their application to RF circuits.RF:This book is based on the last two days of the Applied RF Techniques I course and the Applied RF Techniques II course.
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-RF and Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Communicaions
Larry Larson, editor
This book was developed with the hope of bridging the gap between the traditional art of radio and RF engineering and the requirements of today's modern wireless communications systems.
RF:The chapter on digital modulation is a very good reference (by Larry Burns).
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-Spell Check Dictionary with RF Terms
Allen Podell
Are you tired of constantly having to ignore your spell checker highlighting RF terms as misspelled? Instructor Allen Podell has shared his custom dictionary file, which you can use as a starter for creating your own list of terms that are "OK" in the RF world.
-Microwave Engineering
David M. Pozar
This book is an essential reference for your microwave circuits library. You will find that many other books and articles reference this work.
-Behavioral Modeling of Nonlinear RF and Microwave Devices
Thomas Turlington
A unique approach is used to model non linear behavior of devices, amplifiers, sub systems, and systems. Full use of spreadsheet computation of additive equations involving newly defined right hand and left hand functions provides insight into non linear behavior. Relationships are developed between amplifier saturated power output, 1 dB compression point, third order intercept point, and a newly defined compression coefficient. This new approach reveals why third order intermodulation products don't always increase 3 dB per 1 dB increase in power input when running the classical two tone test.
Have you ever been perplexed with a shortfall in saturated power output from a cascaded string of power amplifier stages when standard CAD software predicted full expected power output? Behavioral models using the newly defined compression coefficient reveal the reason. Cascaded amplifier stage equations are formulated from which three dimensional trade spaces can be developed that lead to optimum power output and optimum power added efficiency.
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