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This text/reference develops practical intuition into the art of RF circuit design and introduces users to the widely used simulation tool, Pathwave ADS, from Keysight Technologies. By using project-oriented assignments, it builds a strong foundation and focuses on practical applications illustrated by examples, simulation tutorials, and homework problems. Learning through doing has proven to be an effective preparatory tool for more advanced and complex applications, and this book is developed from the author’s lecture notes for a senior/graduate class at University of California Santa Barbara. The class had a significant lab component employing measurement techniques, board-level prototyping, and RFIC design. Falling somewhere between a traditional textbook and a practical handbook, it focuses mainly on analog RF analysis and design and circuit simulation techniques.
The topic of radio frequency electronics is both very old and at the same time very new. When products such as cellphones and computers are designed to be obsolete in a year or two, it would appear at first glance that learning older concepts of RF engineering would be superfluous. It is my belief that in order to step up to the latest and greatest RF based circuits and systems, one must fully understand the fundamentals, many of which have been around for years.
The chapters in this book were developed from my lecture notes on a two-quarter class at the senior and graduate level at UCSB. The class had a significant lab component employing measurement techniques, board-level prototyping, and RFIC design. The emphasis of the material in this book is first to develop practical intuition into the art of RF circuit design and second to begin the learning curve for a widely used simulation tool, Pathwave ADS, from Keysight Technologies.
Learning through doing has proven to be an effective preparation for more advanced and complex applications. Thus, the book falls somewhere between a traditional textbook with all of its derivations and a practical handbook. The book will focus mainly on analog RF analysis and design. Little is said about DSP or digital communications, topics well beyond the scope of this work.
A few lab exercises are included in the text or as homework that make use of commercially available hardware or provide a sequence of steps that are applicable to any RF transistor. The goal is to begin to develop measurement expertise and to illustrate concepts described in the text through hardware applications. Homework solutions are available. The UCSB course also included a significant review (many pages) of feedback theory for transistor circuits, using Bode plots to analyze phase margins, compensation and use of MatLAB