RF / Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications

ULRICH L. ROHDE, PhD, Dr.-ing habil., is Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corporation; a partner of Rohde & Schwarz; and Professor of Microwave and RF Technology at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.MATTHIAS RUDOLPH, PhD, Dr.-ing, is the Ulrich L. Rohde Professor for RF and Microwave Techniques at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany. He worked previously at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) in charge of GaAs semiconductor nonlinearity and noise modeling.

• Foreword xiiiPreface xv1 Introduction to Wireless Circuit Design 11.1 Introduction 11.2 System Functions 31.3 The Radio Channel and Modulation Requirements 51.4 About Bits, Symbols, and Waveforms 291.5 Analysis of Wireless Systems 501.6 Building Blocks 781.7 System Specifications and Their Relationship to Circuit Design 791.8 Testing 1081.9 Converting C/N or SNR to EB/N0 1232 Models for Active Devices 1272.1 Diodes 1282.2 Bipolar Transistors 2032.3 Field-Effect Transistors 2392.4 Large-Signal Behavior of JFETs 2482.5 Parameter Extraction of Active Devices 3243 Amplifier Design with BJTs and FETs 3593.1 Properties of Amplifiers 3593.2 Amplifier Gain, Stability, and Matching 4233.3 Single-Stage Feedback Amplifiers 4843.4 Two-Stage Amplifiers 4903.5 Amplifiers with Three or More Stages 4993.6 A Novel Approach to Voltage-Controlled Tuned Filters Including CAD Validation 5053.7 Differential Amplifiers 5143.8 Frequency Doublers 5183.9 Multistage Amplifiers with Automatic Gain Control (AGC) 5243.10 Biasing 5243.11 Push–Pull/Parallel Amplifiers 5393.12 Power Amplifiers 5424 Mixer Design 6374.1 Introduction 6374.2 Properties of Mixers 6404.3 Diode Mixers 6544.4 Transistor Mixers 6855 RF/Wireless Oscillators 7275.1 Introduction of Frequency Control 7275.2 Background 7275.3 Oscillator Design 7285.4 Oscillator Circuits 7445.5 Design of RF Oscillators 7465.6 Noise in Oscillators 7815.7 Oscillators in Practice 8035.8 Phase-Noise Improvements of Integrated RF and Millimeterwave Oscillators 8146 Wireless Synthesizers 8316.1 Introduction 8316.2 Phase-Locked Loops 8316.3 How to Do a Practical PLL Design Using CAD 8596.4 Fractional-N-Division PLL Synthesis 8646.5 Direct Digital Synthesis 871References 879Interesting Patents 880Further Reading 881Index 883