FRONT COVER -- RF CIRCUIT DESIGN -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 Components and Systems -- Wire -- Resistors -- Capacitors -- Inductors -- Toroids -- Toroidal Inductor Design -- Practical Winding Hints -- CHAPTER 2 Resonant Circuits -- Some Definitions -- Resonance (Lossless Components) -- Loaded Q -- Insertion Loss -- Impedance Transformation -- Coupling of Resonant Circuits -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3 Filter Design -- Background -- Modern Filter Design -- Normalization and the Low-Pass Prototype -- Filter Types -- Frequency and Impedance Scaling -- High-Pass Filter Design -- The Dual Network -- Bandpass Filter Design -- Summary of the Bandpass Filter Design Procedure -- Band-Rejection Filter Design -- The Effects of Finite Q -- CHAPTER 4 Impedance Matching -- Background -- The L Network -- Dealing With Complex Loads -- Three-Element Matching -- Low-Q or Wideband Matching Networks -- The Smith Chart -- Impedance Matching on the Smith Chart -- Software Design Tools -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5 The Transistor at Radio Frequencies -- RF Transistor Materials -- The Transistor Equivalent Circuit -- Y Parameters -- S Parameters -- Understanding RF Transistor Data Sheets -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6 Small-Signal RF Amplifier Design -- Some Definitions -- Transistor Biasing -- Design Using Y Parameters -- Design Using S Parameters -- CHAPTER 7 RF (Large Signal) Power Amplifiers -- RF Power Transistor Characteristics -- Transistor Biasing -- RF Semiconductor Devices -- Power Amplifier Design -- Matching to Coaxial Feedlines -- Automatic Shutdown Circuitry -- Broadband Transformers -- Practical Winding Hints -- Summary -- CHAPTER 8 RF Front-End Design -- Higher Levels of Integration -- Basic Receiver Architectures -- ADC'S Effect on Front-End Design -- Software Defined Radios -- Case Study-Modern Communication Receiver.

CHAPTER 9 RF Design Tools -- Design Tool Basics -- Design Languages -- RFIC Design Flow -- RFIC Design Flow Example -- Simulation Example 1 -- Simulation Example 2 -- Modeling -- PCB Design -- Packaging -- Case Study -- Summary -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.