Product Description

Reviewing the previous edition, "IEEE Microwave Magazine" boasted, "anyone designing power amplifiers will find this book thought provoking and useful." Professionals in the field agreed as the book went on to be one of our top-selling RF design titles. This extensively revised edition of "RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications" offers practitioners a comprehensive, practical, and up-to-date understanding of how to tackle a PA (power amplifier) design with confidence and quickly determine the cause of malfunctioning hardware. Among the numerous updates, the Second Edition includes five new chapters on some of today's most important topics, such as class AB PAs at GHz frequencies; switching PA modes at GHz frequencies; signals, modulation systems, and PA nonlinearities; power amplifier bias circuit design; and load-pull techniques. Supported with nearly 200 illustrations, the book contains the most complete survey of RF PA efficiency enhancement and linearization techniques in a single volume.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #726212 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 472 pages

About the Author
Steve C. Cripps is an independent consultant concentrating in the area of RF power amplifier design. He is also the author of Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design (Artech House, 2002) and has over 20 years of experience in microwave technology design and development. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Customer Reviews

A clear and easily readble presentation of the subject
The book requires the reader to be familiar with the concepts of rf design such as the Smith chart and use of s parameters. However it identifies the principles behind issues clearly rather than getting bogged down in details or unnecessary mathematics. This makes it very readable for a book which addresses the issues in the depth this one does. It provides relevant references to original sources and books giving the mathematics and further details.

This book starts where other books ends.
This is a very useful book for RF amplifier design specially PA design. It starts its theory at a juncture where other books stops expaining. It explains in a useful manner various hidden facts about class c PA design. Must for RF PA designers.