Solid State Radio Engineering

By Herbert L. Krauss and Frederick H. Raab

Book Overview

A comprehensive text that covers both receiver and transmitter circuits, reflecting the past decade's developments in solid-state technology. Emphasizes design using practical circuit elements, with basic ideas of electrical noise, resonant impedance-matching circuits, and modulation theory thoroughly explained. Contains the latest techniques in radio frequency power amplifier design, accepted state-of-the-art technology based on bipolar junction transistors, VMOS RF power FETs, high-efficiency techniques, envelope elimination and restoration, envelope feedback, and other newly emerging technologies. Requires a knowledge of complex algebra, Fourier series, and Fourier transforms. Also includes numerous worked-out examples that relate the theory to practical circuit applications, and homework problems keyed to corresponding sections of the text.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047103018X
• ISBN13: 9780471030188
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Very good treatment of practical communications circuits

An excellent text for the real world of RF design, covering noise calculations, mixers, oscillators, filters, amplifiers, modulation and demodulation, PLLs, and other aspects of RF communications. Though I personally prefer Hayward's "Introduction to Radio Frequency Design" (especially for its treatment of oscillator circuits), I frequently refer to the Krauss & Bostian text for clarification of concepts and its greater emphasis on different schemes for modulation and demodulation. The treatment of PLLs is rather skimpy, but there are several textbooks specific to that subject (and even they gloss over some aspects).In conjunction with Bowick's "RF Design" and Hayward's text, the Krauss & Bostian text delivers all the guidance needed for practical RF design.

Great practical book for RF designers

What can I say? I laughed, I cried. When he got to the part about class D power amplifiers the suspence was killing me!