RF Circuit Design, 2nd Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

I wrote the book titled RF Circuit Design in the United States, which was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2009. It contains three parts:

1. Introduction to individual RF circuit block design. This part resembles existing books on RF circuit design. The topics concern main RF blocks such as the LNA (low-noise amplifier), Mixer, PA (power amplifier), VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator), PLL (phase lock loop), and so on. Most published RF books or articles focus largely on the description of operating principles of the circuitry. Distinctively, this part of the book emphasizes the actual engineering design procedures and schemes.

This part could be categorized as “longitudinal.”

2. Summary of skills and technologies in RF circuit design. Instead of describing circuit operating principles, the second part describes general design skills and technologies, such as impedance matching, RF grounding, layout, jeopardy in RFIC and SOC (system-on-a-chip) design, 6σ design, and so on. This part is derived from my own design experience of over 20 years, highlighting both successes and failures. Therefore, it is unique among the published books on RF circuit design and represents the special feature of this book.

This part could be categorized as “transversal.”

3. Basic parameters of an RF system and the fundamentals of RF system design. This part considers a “must” theoretical background to an RF circuit designer, who should fully understand the basic RF ...