Bessernet Suggested Resources
Alphabetical listing of all recommended Books:
-Noble Publishing Products Related to Filter Design
Noble Publishing
Books, Videos, and CD ROMs related to Filter Design.
-The ARRL Antenna Book
ARRL
All the information you need to design your own complete antenna system.
Since the first edition in September 1939, radio amateurs and professional engineers have turned to The ARRL Antenna Book as THE source of current antenna theory and a wealth of practical how-to construction projects. Use this book to discover even the most basic antenna designs-- wire and loop antennas, verticals, and Yagis--and for advanced antenna theory and applications. Many of the antennas in this edition benefit directly from advances in sophisticated computer modeling.
This 21st edition has been extensively revised to include information you can use to build highly optimized or specialized antennas. The book includes new content on Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS) techniques, phased arrays, S-parameters as used in modern vector network analyzers (VNA), Beverage receiving antennas, mobile screwdriver antennas, ionospheric area-coverage maps, and much...much more.
-A Guide to Writing as an Engineer
David F. Beer, David McMurrey
Improve the signal-to-noise ratio in your writing!
You'll need more than just technical prowess to succeed as a professional engineer; you'll need to be an effective communicator.
Specifically written to address the needs of engineers, this brief, easy-to-use guide gives you an efficient and direct way to improve your writing and speaking skills. The authors focus on those writing activities that engineers perform on a daily basis, such as reports, business letters, office memoranda, and e-mail, as well as oral presentations.
-Practical RF Circuit Design for Modern Wireless Systems: Volume I - Passive Circuits and Systems
Les Besser and Rowan Gilmore
The first of a two-volume set, this leading-edge book takes a practical approach to RF circuit design, offering a complete understanding of the fundamental concepts you need to know and use for your work in this industry. The book lays the ground work for efficient RF circuit design in a step-by-step approach, by defining important principles and parameters and progressively introducing critical analytical tools. It helps you distinguish between RF and low frequency circuits, and offers a detailed look at a typical RF system. This is a tested and insightful book that contains answers to most of the questions practical engineers are asking. The first volume reviews various computer-aided simulation, synthesis, and optimization techniques used in modern RF and microwave design, and discusses the practical use of the graphical design tools, such as the Smith Chart.
RF:This book is based on the first three days of the Applied RF Techniques I course.
Instructor Bio of Les Besser
Instructor Bio of Rowan Gilmore
-Signal Processing for Wireless Communications
Joe Boccuzzi
Signal Processing for Wireless Communications 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.
-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.
Instructor Bio of Steve Cripps
-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.
Instructor Bio of Steve Cripps
-Wireless And Personal Communications Systems (PCS): Fundamentals and Applications
Vijay Garg
PCS (Personal Communication Systems) will provide the convenience of FAX, Email and voice mail in a package similar to cellular phones. This book describes both Personal Communication Systems and mobile networks — and as they are envisioned for the future. KEY TOPICS: The first half of this book covers the theory of wireless communications, presenting the historical background of wireless telephony and the evolution of wireless technologies in the U.S. and Europe. The second half of the book presents the analog and digital (cellular and PCS) systems used in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. For wireless engineers and those interested in marketing wireless products in the United States.
-IS-95 CDMA and cdma 2000: Cellular/PCS Systems Implementation
Vijay Garg
The Next Generation: Wireless Communications for Multimedia and Beyond Of all wireless technologies for personal communications, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) offers the best combination of good signal quality, high security, low power consumption, and excellent system reliability. Features added in the IS-95 standard means this impressive list now also includes Third Generation (3G) data capabilities that will allow CDMA providers to offer Internet and intranet services for multimedia applications, high-speed business transactions, and telemetry. The upcoming cdma2000 standard will further expand usable bandwidth without sacrificing voice quality or requiring additional spectrum. In this book by an experienced telecommunications authority, you will learn how to maximize the power of CDMA, migrate existing systems to the newest standards, and prepare for a smooth transition to features yet to come. IS-95 CDMA and cdma2000: Cellular/PCS Systems Implementation covers all aspects of up-to-date CDMA implementation and operation, including: * Coding and architecture * Radio interface and call flow * Physical, data link, and signaling layers * Handoff and power control * System security * Wireless Data * Reverse and Forward Link Capacity * RF Engineering and network planning * Evolution to Third Generation systems Practicing engineers and their managers will benefit from the in-depth coverage of IS-95 systems, RF engineering, and capacity planning. Students will appreciate the forward-looking approach that offers a look at the future of the industry where they are preparing for careers. IS-95 CDMA and cdma2000: Cellular/PCS Systems Implementation offers both practical applications information and conveniently organized reference materials for anyone interested in the next generation of wireless telecommunications.
-Wireless Network Evolution: 2G to 3G
Vijay Garg
New 3G systems will trigger an explosion in wireless Internet and data applications by delivering far higher data rates than have ever been possible in wireless systems before. In Wireless Network Evolution: 2G to 3G, renowned wireless expert Vijay K. Garg covers key 3G standard and every technical issue associated with planning, management, and optimization of 3G systems. Garg reviews the fundamental principles underlying existing 2G systems, then offers specific, practical guidance on migration to 3G.
-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.
Instructor Bio of Les Besser
Instructor Bio of Rowan Gilmore
-Adaptive WCDMA
Savo Glisic
Covers the latest theoretical principals and practice of wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA), which is the basis for the physical layer of the third generation mobile communications systems.
Instructor bio for Savo Glisic
-Spread Spectrum Cdma Systems for Wireless Communications
Savo Glisic, Branka Vucetic
This comprehensive new book explains the main issues of spread spectrum Call Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and makes its practical applications available to network engineers and managers. It clearly lays out important code acquisition strategies for direct sequence (DS) and frequency hopping (FH) systems, compares various code tracking loop systems, and details receiver configurations. Packed with nearly 1,000 equations, it also provides the mathematical tools needed to apply the technology to a particular wireless system.
Instructor bio for Savo Glisic
-Code Division Multiple Access Communications
Savo Glisic, Pentti Leppanen
From the Amazon.com website: Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) has become one of the main candidates for the next generation of mobile land and satellite communication systems. CDMA is based on spread spectrum techniques, which have been used in military applications for over half a century. Only recently, however, has it been recognised that spread spectrum techniques, combined with some additional steps, can provide higher capacity and better flexibility for the mobile cellular radio communications. Code Division Multiple Access Communications comprises a set of contributions from the most distinguished world scientists in the field. These papers review the basic theory and some of the most important problems related to spread spectrum and CDMA. The topics covered centre on the information theory aspects of CDMA; interference suppression and performance analysis. The material presented in this book summarises the main problems in modern CDMA theory and practice and gives a solid starting point for studying this complex and still challenging field. As such Code Division Multiple Access Communications is essential reading for all researchers and designers working in mobile communication systems and provides an excellent text for a course on the subject.
Instructor bio for Savo Glisic
-Advanced Wireless Communications : 4G Technologies
Savo Glisic
The wireless community is on the verge of the standardization of fourth generation (4G) systems. Research has generated a number of solutions for significant improvement of system performance. The development of enabling technologies such as adaptive coding and modulation, iterative (turbo) decoding algorithms and space-time coding, means that industry can now implement these solutions. Advanced Wireless Communications: 4G Technologies focuses on the system elements that provide adaptability and reconfigurability and discusses how these features can improve 4G system performance.
There are several different systems comprising 4G, including adaptive WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), ATDMA (Adaptive Time Division Multiple Access), Multicarrier (OFDMA) and Ultra Wide Band (UWB) receiver elements. This book provides a comparative study of these technologies and focuses on their future co-existence.
Instructor bio for Savo Glisic
-Wireless Communications: CDMA vs. TDMA
Savo Glisic
This book provides enough information for correct understanding of the arguments in favour of one or the other multiple access technique. The final decision about which of the two techniques should be employed will depend not only on technical arguments but also on the amount of new investments needed and compatibility with previous systems and their infrastructures.
Instructor bio for Savo Glisic
-Digital Frequency Synthesis Demystified: Dds and Fractional-N Plls
Bar-Giora Goldberg
Digital frequency synthesis is used in modern wireless and communications technologies such as radar, cellular telephony, satellite communications, electronic imaging, and spectroscopy. This is book is a comprehensive overview of digital frequency synthesis theory and applications, with a particular emphasis on the latest approaches using fractional-N phase-locked loop technology. The design tools in the accompany CD allow readers to work through the examples in this book for a realistic simulation of actual design using digital frequency synthesis.
-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).
Instructor bio for Larry Larson
-Microwaves and Wireless Simplified
Thomas Laverghetta
Using simple, down-to-earth language, without any math, Microwaves and Wireless Simplified explains the meaning of microwave and wireless engineering expressions such as VSWR, Characteristic Impedance, Reflection Coefficient, and many more. The book is written especially for non-technical managers, marketers, and sales people in high-tech industries who communicate with engineers and technical personnel every day. It enables a clear understanding of microwave and wireless concepts and theory, and shows how the technology is applied to radar, telephone, and communications engineering. The author also describes various microwave components and materials -- what they are and how they work together to make up the total microwave or wireless system. The book contains over 100 clear illustrations and a full glossary to facilitate learning.
Instructor bio for Tom Laverghetta
-Microwave Materials and Fabrication Techniques
Thomas S Laverghetta
Contents include laminates and substrates, metals, microwave artwork, etching and plating techniques, bonding techniques, microwave packaging, and more. Previous edition not cited. DLC: Microwave circuits.
-Understanding Digital Signal Processing - 2nd Edition
Richard G. Lyons
This is undoubtedly the most accessible book on digital signal processing available to the beginner. Using intuitive explanations and well-chosen examples, this book gives you the tools to develop a fundamental understanding of DSP theory. The author covers the essential mathematics by explaining the meaning and significance of the key DSP equations. Comprehensive in scope, and gentle in approach, the book will help you achieve a thorough grasp of the basics and move gradually to more sophisticated DSP concepts and applications.
The book begins with a complete explanation of the often misunderstood topic of periodic sampling. The introduction to the important discrete Fourier transform, and its fast Fourier transform (FFT) implementation, is the most lucid and illuminating explanation available anywhere. You will also find extensive information on both finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) digital filters, as well as coverage of the benefits of signal averaging. In addition, the book demystifies the abstruse topics of the Convolution theorem and complex signals. The practical uses of various binary number formats are also carefully described and compared. Finally, a collection of tricks-of-the-trade used by professionals to make DSP algorithms more efficient will help you apply DSP concepts successfully.
-Noise in Linear and Nonlinear Circuits
Stephen A. Maas
Overcome the effects of noise to push the level of circuit performance with this practical reference. Thoroughly explaining the theory of noise in high-frequency circuits, the book focuses on the real-world problems noise creates. It provides you with a full understanding of methods for analyzing and minimizing noise in linear and nonlinear circuits. The book pays special attention to phase noise in oscillators, offering you a comprehensive and accessible treatment of this critical topic. Additionally, this authoritative volume examines noise in low-noise amplifiers, mixers, and frequency multipliers.
-Practical Digital Wireless Signals
Earl McCune
Do you need to know what signal type to select for a wireless application? Quickly develop a useful expertise in digital modulation with this practical guide, based on the author's experience of over 30 years in industrial design. You will understand the physical meaning behind the mathematics of wireless signals and learn the intricacies and tradeoffs in signal selection and design. Six modulation families and 12 modulation types are covered in depth, together with a quantitative ranking of relative cost incurred to implement any of 12 modulation types. Extensive discussions of the Shannon Limit, Nyquist filtering, efficiency measures and signal-to-noise measures are provided, radio wave propagation and antennas, multiple access techniques, and signal coding principles are all covered, and spread spectrum and wireless system operation requirements are presented.
-Fixed Broadband Wireless Communications : Principles and Practical Applications
Douglas Morais
Fixed broadband wireless systems give service providers and enterprises flexible, cost-effective ways to deliver, from "long-haul" to "last-mile", voice and Internet/data services at multi-megabit rates. Now, wireless infrastructure consultant Dr. Douglas Morais systematically introduces, with the aid of insightful examples, fixed broadband wireless for working professionals: its principles, design techniques, emerging standards, practical applications, and state-of-the-art commercial systems.
Instructor bio for Doug Morais
-Bluetooth: Operation and Use
Robert K. Morrow
Unlike most other references on the market, this next-generation resource goes well beyond Bluetooth specifications and thoroughly examines different implementation approaches--as taught by a "master instructor."
Instructor bio for Robert Morrow
-Wireless Network Coexistence
Robert K. Morrow
Wireless Network Coexistence deals with the integration and practical applications of the entire gamet of wireless services, including Wi-Fi, Wi-Media, ZigBee, and Bluetooth. It discusses what each of the services has to offer, what can be accomplished with each, and how each fits into an integrated wireless solution.
Instructor bio for Robert Morrow
-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.
-The FFT, Fundamentals and Concepts
Robert W. Ramirez
Recommended reference for the production testing course.
-Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition)
Theodore Rappaport
The indispensable guide to wireless communications—now fully revised and updated!
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is the definitive modern text for wireless communications technology and system design. Building on his classic first edition, Theodore S. Rappaport covers the fundamental issues impacting all wireless networks and reviews virtually every important new wireless standard and technological development, offering especially comprehensive coverage of the 3G systems and wireless local area networks (WLANs) that will transform communications in the coming years. Rappaport illustrates each key concept with practical examples, thoroughly explained and solved step by step.
Whether you're a communications/network professional, manager, researcher, or student, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition gives you an in-depth understanding of the state of the art in wireless technology—today's and tomorrow's.
RF:This book is a good reference on different wireless standards as well as basic fundamentals.
-Production Testing of Rf and System-On-A-Chip Devices for Wireless Communications
Keith Schaub
With the increasing number of integrated wireless devices being developed with SOC (system on a chip) technology, a merger of RF and mixed-signal test approaches is quickly becoming a necessity. Addressing this need head-on, this first-of-its-kind resource offers you an in-depth overview of RF and SOC product testing for wireless communications. The book introduces new, creative methods that lead to more efficient testing, such as multi-site and parallel testing. You learn how to determine critical measurements for specific applications, including Bluetooth, WLAN, and 3G devices. Moreover, the book shows you how to perform these measurements cost effectively in a production test environment.
Instructor bio for Keith Schaub
-RF Measurements for Cellular Phones and Wireless Data Systems
Al Scott, Rex Frobenius
Consult RF Measurements for Cellular Phones and Wireless Data Systems, the only source for practical, real-world information on radio frequency (RF) measurements for cellular phones and wireless data systems. Find a review of basic RF principles and terminology, descriptions of RF measurement equipment, an explanation of the RF devices used in cellular phones and wireless data transmission equipment, and information about the testing of RF devices and systems with digitally modulated signals that represent the voice, video, or data carried by RF. You will rely on this guide to cell phone and wireless equipment technology.
-Understanding Microwaves
Allan W. Scott
A complete and accessible introduction to the important field of microtechnology. Avoiding complex mathematics, it covers all the pertinent microwave terminology, devices, systems and subsystems in order to facilitate an understanding of how everything fits together to create communications, navigation and radar equipment. Packed with illustrations as well as extensive exercises and answers.
-Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications (2nd Edition)
Bernard Sklar
The book traces the signals and key processing steps from the information source, through the transmitter, channel, receiver, and ultimately to the information sink. Emphasis is placed on system goals and the need to trade-off basic system parameters such as signal-to-noise ratio, probability of error, and bandwidth.
Instructor bio for Bernard Sklar
-Electromagnetic Shielding Handbook for Wired and Wireless EMC Applications
Anatoly Tsaliovich
This single source encyclopedic volume contains the answers to numerous complex shielding problems. It integrates basic concepts with hands-on techniques and practical recommendations on a broad range of EMC and shielding-related subjects: the role and significance of the shielding discipline, electromagnetic energy coupling and transfer mechanisms, shielding cables, enclosures, systems, sound shielding design, evaluation, measurement practices and other timely shielding topics. The handbook suggests original methods of cost-effective and optimal design selections and solutions to shielding systems and their elements. It spans all shielding levels: single chip, printed circuit board, cables and cable assemblies, whole products and systems -- up to complex networks. This new handbook is based on more than 30 years of the author's experience in the electromagnetic shielding and EMC field. It significantly expands upon Cable Shield for Electromagnetic Compatibility -- a previous book by the same author. A number of important new `non-cable' topics are included, and a more general introduction to the subject is given, in addition to providing a wealth of detailed and useful material. It will be a resource for answers to numerous difficult shielding-related questions, as well as especially valuable to the EMI and EMC community at large. Professional engineers, researchers and students interested in electromagnetic interference, compatibility and its biological safety will find this handbook invaluable.
Instructor bio for Anatoly Tsaliovich
-Cable Shielding for Electromagnetic Compatibility: A Guide to Emc Management and System Design
Anatoly Tsaliovich
Authors draws upon his thirty years of experience in the field to provide this complete, up-to-date reference guide to the fundamentals of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and cable shielding.
Instructor bio for Anatoly Tsaliovich
-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.
Instructor bio for Thomas Turlington
-OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications
Richard Van Nee and Ramjee Prasad
A practical guide on how to plan, design, and use Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM) to generate mobile multimedia communications...also examines the basics of direct sequence and frequency hopping CDMA.
-RF Measurements of Die and Packages
Scott Wartenberg
Reference book for using probes and test fixtures in RF measurements.
-The Essential Guide to RF and Wireless
Carl J. Weisman
A handy guide to RF and wireless terminology and concepts. Very useful for "non-engineers."
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