Developed by adjunct associate professor C. J. (Keith) Kikkert of James Cook University (Australia) School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, the book describes the use of Microwave Office and AXIEM software to design RF electronic devices for applications such as amplifiers, radar, mobile phones, Bluetooth and WLAN. This new edition is fully compatible with NI AWR Design Environment 64-bit software releases.
The chapters of this book have been improved for greater clarity, benefitting readers by increasing their understanding of design techniques. Several sections have been rewritten to clarify finer points of the design techniques under discussion and figures showing plots and circuits from software screen captures have been redone using higher resolution images. Additionally, substantial material has been added in the chapter on oscillators to show how oscillator phase noise can be improved by careful resonator design.