TECHNICAL EBOOK
This eBook is a comprehensive RF design course, including lecture notes and lab examples,
intended for final year undergraduate or masters students. The materials cover RF
simulation, transformers, transmission lines, mixers, oscillators, filters, and amplifiers.
RF Electronics:
Design and Simulation
Featuring Cadence AWR Software
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction ........................................................................ 1
Chapter 2: Chapter Computer Simulation ..................................... 5
Chapter 3: Transformers and Hybrids ..........................................50
Chapter 4: Transmission Line Transformers and Hybrids.......64
Chapter 5: Frequency Mixers ........................................................109
Chapter 6: Oscillators ...................................................................... 173
Chapter 7: RF Filters ........................................................................ 208
Chapter 8: Amplifiers: Stability, Noise and Gain ......................275
Chapter 9: Impedance Matching of Power Amplifiers .......... 304
Chapter 10: Operational Amplifiers ............................................. 340
Chapter 11: Circuit Manufacture .................................................. 364
Appendix 1: Importing Local Vendor and XML Libraries ...... 385
Appendix 2: Producing Graphs using AWR DE ........................ 389
