RF Circuit Design

by Christopher Bowick

Book Overview

Essential reading for experts in the field of RF circuit design and engineers needing a good reference. This book provides complete design procedures for multiple-pole Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel filters. It also covers capacitors, inductors, and other components with their behavior at RF frequencies discussed in detail.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672218682
• ISBN13: 9780672218682
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Rf Circuit Design by Christopher Bowick

This is an excellent practical design guide for RF engineers. It treats the components as lumped elements and covers most of the important issues like impedance transformation, matching networks, and practical amplifier design. You can approach RF either thru the wave or circuit analysis. If you dont have either the patience and curiosity to dwelve into the whys, then this book is for you. A solid understanding of RF requires an in depth knowledge of Maxwell equations and their application to the boundary conditions. For the mathematically inclined I would recommend the Microwave Engineering by David Pozar.Missing in the book RF circuit Design are topics dealing with distributed elements, microstrip and slot line designs which become very important in the Ghz range where even IC pad's reactance is large, and wavelength can approach 1mm.

Circuit design explaned

The book is outstanding in regards to the layout and information it gives. Explaining in great mathematical detail as to why things have happenned in the past and why the great teacher was right when he said " don't touch the copper wires or even think about changing anything you see". looking at an amplifier or RF circuit now makes sense, you will see all the components layed out and understand what bit does what and what you can expect on the test bench and what calculations have taken you to that point.

Students .... buy! buy! buy!.

After graduating some years ago, I came across this RF Book by bowick. Started reading it in the store ... it was like a novel, didn't want to put it down. As I read through small snippets from each chapter, nostalgic thoughts of my university days came flooding back. Hours spent sitting in lecture theaters wandering WHAT? WHY? HOW? ....Students, buy this book, easy to read, covers everything (almost), ... wish I had found it years before! .One thing that really stood out (for me) - why do we have to learn 'Y' and 'S' parameters ? ... he made it clear in one sentance. I've always hated having to learn something without knowning the in's and out's, this book tells you the WHAT! WHY! and HOW!.

The one to buy if you're only buying one

I am amazed at the amount of information packed in these (relatively few) pages. Oscillators and signal generation are not covered, but just about every other aspect of solid-state RF circuit design is here: small- and large-signal amplifiers, impedance matching networks, filters, Smith charts, "nonideal" characteristics of components at radiofrequencies and so on. The presentation is lucid and the information eminently useful. If your job or hobby involves working with RF circuits, don't even THINK about not having this book in your collection.If you're looking to buy TWO books about RF circuit design, I also recommend Irving Gottlieb's excellent book, which also covers vacuum tube circuits.

Bowick's RF Circuit Design Should Be On Your RF Bookshelf

An excellent, concise, introduction to RF circuit design. The emphasis is on the practical aspects relating to RF circuit design. The first chapter covers components at RF frequencies, a subject often overlooked by unwary designers. Impedance matching, filters, and an introduction to the Smtih(c) Chart are covered in the text. RF small signal and power amplifier design is also explained. The text does an excellent job of taking the reader from the device data sheet to a practical RF circuit design using concepts developed throughout the book. Technicians and hobbyists as well as engineers may benefit from the book's straight-forward writing style. Bowick has kept the mathematics as simple as possible, one only needs algebra and minimal complex number (covered in appendix) theory understanding to work the many problems and examples. This book is used by several companies specializing in RF circuit design training as a textbook for their introductory classes. A must for anyone who is new to the RF design field and wants to come up-to-speed quickly. I recommend the book highly to all, it has been an invaluable resource for me.