RF circuit design

Essential reading for experts in the field of RF circuit design and engineers needing a good reference. This book provides complete design procedures for multiple-pole Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel filters. It also covers capacitors, inductors, and other components with their behavior at RF frequencies discussed in detail. *Provides complete design procedures for multiple-pole Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel filters *Covers capacitors, inductors, and other components with their behavior at RF frequencies discussed in detail Cover......Page 1 Half Title Page......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Preface......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 7 Table of Contents......Page 8 Wire......Page 10 Resistors......Page 11 Capacitors......Page 13 Inductors......Page 16 Toroids......Page 19 Toroidal Inductor Design......Page 29 Practical Winding Hints......Page 31 Some Definitions......Page 32 Resonance (Lossless Components)......Page 33 Loaded Q......Page 35 Insertion Loss......Page 37 Coupling of Resonant Circuits......Page 38 Background......Page 45 Normalization and the Low-Pass Prototype......Page 47 Filter Design......Page 48 Frequency and Impedance Scaling......Page 54 High-Pass Filter Design......Page 57 The Dual Network......Page 59 Bandpass Filter Design......Page 60 Band-Rejection Filter Design......Page 65 The Effects of Finite Q......Page 66 Background......Page 67 The L Network......Page 68 Dealing with Complex Loads......Page 69 Three-Element Matching......Page 71 Low-Q or Wideband Matching Networks......Page 73 The Smith Chart......Page 76 Impedance Matching on the Smith Chart......Page 85 Summary......Page 97 The Transistor Equivalent Circuit......Page 99 Y Parameters......Page 103 S Parameters......Page 104 Understanding RF Transistor Data Sheets......Page 115 Summary......Page 117 Transistor Biasing......Page 118 Design Using Y Parameters......Page 121 Design Using S Parameters......Page 128 Transistor Biasing......Page 151 Power Amplifier Design......Page 158 Matching to Coaxial Feedlines......Page 159 Automatic Shutdown Circuitry......Page 161 Broadband Transformers......Page 162 Practical Winding Hints......Page 163 Summary......Page 164 Appendix A......Page 165 Appendix B......Page 168 Appendix C......Page 171 Backcover......Page 178 Provides complete design procedures for multiple-pole Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel filters. This book covers capacitors, inductors, and other components with their behavior at RF frequencies discussed in detail. It provides complete design procedures for multiple-pole Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel filters.