RF Circuit Design

I think this book is practically the bible for anyone looking into designing radios. Using the material covered in this book, I've built three functioning transcievers. I started as a amateur, knowing the rock-bottom basics of circuit design, and steadily built increasingly more complex prototypes, until I worked up to a 50 watt transciever operating on 3.80512 GHz.

If you're interested in learning RF Circuit design, you need this book. This book gradually steps through important sections of analysis in RF design and works its way up to amplifiers, oscillators and mixers. I bought this book without fully knowing a large number of founding concepts of RF theory. What I found was that this book anticipates this from the reader and invests the first few chapters teaching such topics. As you progress through the high frequency analysis and learning how to apply the smith chart, you're brought into the world of active circuits. Systematically applying earlier taught material to more advanced topics, the reader is left with a good understanding of pratical application. Overall, this is a beginner-intermediate RF text. After completing a study of this text, you'll have enough to make basic RF circuits and subsystems. To meet the needs of real world applications, you will need a supplimentary text such as Microwave Transistor Amplifiers by Gonzalez. To back this, i point out the extreme lack of emphasis on S-parameter data, as well as only 15 pages on broadband amplifiers.Still this is a pretty good book.

I'm probably a bit biased with this review, seeing as I learned RF design using this text in a course taught by the author. However, I really feel that it is an excellent introduction to the material. The progression through the book is well thought out and easily understandable. A basic knowledge of E/M fields theory is assumed, however. Overall though, for someone who wants an introduction to RF design and wants a book that clearly goes through all the steps in deriving each progressive equation, this book is an excellent choice.

This book is perfect for the college student looking to learn about RF design or the RF professional that may be looking for insight on a particular subject.The book is well organized and the topics flow together well. One of the best features of this book is the detailed examples that are found throughout. Each one builds on previously learned material and contains each derivation and supplemental graphics. Also, the Matlab files that are provided with the CD help you through the examples.Team this book up with Pozar's 'Microwave Engineering' and you can tackle almost any RF design topic. Highly recommended!

As an undergraduate student in Electronic Engineering, I am fortunate to study Radio Frequency theory using this book."RF Circuit Design" is clearly structured as an undergraduate text, but should also serve as a professional reference. It explains RF theory in detail. You get exactly what you need to know and a lot of other topics that are hi-tech, all of them with practical examples.This book is a good value. Not only it is well written, but it also includes a CD with software support for the material covered in the book.