Artech House announced the publication of Technologies for RF Systems by Terry Edwards. This comprehensive resource provides an introduction to the main concepts, technologies and components in microwave and RF engineering.  This book presents details about how to design various amplifiers, circuits and chips for communication systems.  It offers insight into selecting appropriate ADC and DAC technology.  Several worked examples are found throughout the book. This book provides a summary of 21^st century RF systems and electronics and discusses the challenges of frequency bands and wavelengths, software-defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio.

RF semiconductors are covered, including bandgap, drift velocity, resistors, diodes and various transistors.  This book offers details about passive RF components, capacitors, inductors, resistors, coaxial and microstrip lines as well as coplanar waveguide.  Passive RF circuit elements are presented and this book covers the fundamentals of directional couplers, including Lange couplers and Wilkinson dividers.  Switches, attenuators and digital circuits are discussed. This book is packed with additional coverage of RF filters, antennas and small-signal RF amplifiers, and includes chapters on noise and LNAs, RF power amplifiers and RF-oriented ADCs and DACs.  Modulation techniques and technologies are also presented.  

Technologies for RF Systems is available now from Artech House, a leading publisher of books for professionals in high-technology industries.