Radio Frequency System Architecture and Design

Even after completing PhD degrees in radio hardware, say Rogers (engineering), Plett (electronics), and Marsland (systems and computer engineering, all Carlon U., Ottawa, Canada) many students have little knowledge of systems-level specifications for the radio frequency integrated circuits they are becoming experts in designing. They have designed a graduate course to fill that gap, and have assembled their lecture notes into a textbook for a similar course. They provide insight into the design process for a radio front end, not at the transistor level, but at the level where all the circuits operate together to provide an overall working system. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)