RF BOOKS BY TOPIC AND INTEREST
A. FILTERS/IMPEDANCE MATCHING TECHNIQUES
1. Lindquist, Claude S. ACTIVE NETWORK DESIGN Steward & Sons, 1977
Best book on Active Filters and many design examples
2. Budak, Aram PASSIVE AND ACTIVE NETWORK ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS Houghton Mifflin, 1974 Excellent book on Passive and Active Filters Has whole chapter on 2nd order filters and techniques
3. Abrie, Pieter L.D. THE DESIGN OF IMPEDANCE - MATCHING NETWORKS FOR RADIO - FREQUENCY AND MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS Artech House 1985 Best book for impedance matching and general RLC design
4. Temes, Gabor & Mitra, Sanjit K MODERN FILTER THEORY AND DESIGN Wiley 1973
Comprehensive book on filters, good section on crystal and ceramic design methods. Microwave methods and older technologies also discussed.
5. Rizzi, Peter MICROWAVE ENGINEERING Prentice Hill 1988 Everything you wanted to know about general microwave circuit design
B. GENERAL SYSTEM DESIGN
1. Rohde, Ulrich & Bucher, TTN. COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVERS McGraw Hill 1988
Best book for general design has many techniques and sample circuits
2. Roddy, Dennis & Coolen, John ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION Reston,2nd ed 1981
Excellent book with many examples and ideas-many circuits with worked out examples
3. Seely, Samuel ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS Holt Rinehart Winston 1968
Old fashioned book on general circuits with most circuit equations worked out.
4. Fleeman, Stephen R. ELECTRONIC DEVICES Prentice Hall 1990
Modern up to date book on general circuit design-especially good on Power Amps and Oscillators.
5. Pierce, J F & Paulus, T J APPLIED ELECTRONICS Merrill 1972
Pure circuit design and hardware methods book many examples, probably the best
all around circuit design book for experienced designers.
6. Ghausi, M S ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS Van Nostrand Reinhold 1971
Good book for general system for audio, rf design many examples in Laplace domain
7. Carson, R S HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS Wiley & Sons 1982
RF amplifier design with Smith Chart good examples
8. Liao, S Y MICROWAVE CIRCUIT ANALYSIS AND AMPLIFIER DESIGN Prentice Hall 1987
S-parameter design examples
9. Hardy, J HIGH FREQUENCY CIRCUIT DESIGN Reston 1978
Many examples in system and RLC design
10. Bowick, C RF CIRCUIT DESIGN Howard Sams 1982
Excellent beginners book, many examples and tables, RLC techniques worked out
11. Ryder, J D ELECTRONIC FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS Prentice Hall 1964
General book on electronics, good explanation for AM/FM detectors
12. Krauss, H L & Bostian, C W SOLID STATE RADIO ENGINEERING Wiley & Sons 1980
Most general book with some examples and many topics-used for course
13. Texas Instruments INC CIRCUIT DESIGN FOR AUDIO, AM/FM, AND TV McGraw-Hill 1967
Very good book with many examples at all frequencies all worked out in detail. Includes details of mixer design for TV and FM. Audio is kind of dated but shows many details that are applicable.
14. Texas Instruments INC TRANSISTOR CIRCUIT DESIGN McGraw Hill 1963
Still one of the best practical design books at all frequencies many worked out examples
Wideband video amplifier design methods particularly well done
15. Maclean D J H BROADBAND FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS Research Studies 1982
Good general background on amplifiers with stress on feedback techinques
16. Malvino, Albert TRANSISTOR CIRCUIT APPROXIMATIONS McGraw-Hill 1980
Excellent treatise on how to/when to/kind of make approximations
17. Heime, Klaus InGaAs FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS Research Studies-Wiley 1989
Modern treatise on the newest transistors
18. Soares, Robert GaAs MESFET CIRCUIT DESIGN Artech House 1988
Very good modern book on how to design with the newer transistors
19. Oxner, Ed DESIGNING WITH FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS McGraw-Hill 1990 2nd ed
How to use FETs good section on High Frequency Design
20. Millman Jacob & Taub Herbert 1. PULSE AND DIGITAL CIRCUITS McGraw-Hill 1956
2. PULSE DIGITAL AND SWITCHING WAVEFORMS " 1965
Probably best two books ever written on transistors
C. MIXERS/OSCILLATORS
1. Parzen, B & Ballato, A DESIGN OF CRYSTAL AND OTHER HARMONIC OSCILLATORS
Wiley & Sons, 1983 Good book for general oscillator design many models.
2. Gardner F M PHASELOCK TECHNIQUES Wiley & Sons 1966 Original basic book on phaselocks
3. Best, R PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS McGraw-Hill 1984
Modern book on PLLS many examples worked out
4. Bottom V E INTRODUCTION TO QUARTZ CRYSTAL UNIT DESIGN Van Nostrand Reinhold 1982
Design of Crystals for RF circuits
5. Frerking, M CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR DESIGN AND TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION
Van Nostrand Reinhold 1978
Most practical book on oscillator design with suggestions and examples
6. Maas, S MICROWAVE MIXERS Artech House 1986
Best little book on Mixers-very general-some examples
7. Mathys, R J CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUITS Wiley 1983
Excellent book with many circuit suggestions and detailed tables
8. Rhea, Randall OSCILLATOR DESIGN AND COMPUTER SIMULATION Prentice Hall 1990
Modern book with a computer disk and many new methods of oscillator design
9. Rohde, Ulrich DIGITAL PLL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS Prentice Hall 1983
One of the best books on PLLs and design techniques
10.Manassewitsch, Vadim FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS Wiley 1976
Excellent general book on frequency synthesizers of all kinds
D. MATHEMATICS/NOISE DESIGN
1. Couch, L W DIGITAL AND ANALOG COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Macmillan 1983
General Math and solutions for noise design
2. Javid, M & Brenner E ANALYSIS, TRANSMISSION AND FILTERING OF SIGNALS McGraw-Hill 1963
Cute little book on Mathematics, Has everything together in one concise book
3. Motchenbacher C D & Fitchen F.C.LOW NOISE ELECTRONIC DESIGN Wiley 1973
Old but still useful book on noise design, all details worked out
4. Lathi, B P AN INTRODUCTION TO RANDOM SIGNALS AND COMMUNICATION THEORY
International Textbook 1968
Best book ever written on noise and general random signal circuit design
5. Davenport, Wilbur PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESES McGraw-Hill 1970
Excellent book to read before Lathi-- gives solutions to some general
design problems and mathematics behind them.
E. PARAMETERS AND USE IN CIRCUITS
1. Hewlett Packard S-PARAMETERS APPLICATION NOTE 95 Sept 1968
Notes on S parameter usage, many examples very concise.