Rf Books by Topic and Interest

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.