Carlos Quemada

Engineers face stiff challenges in designing phase-locked loop (PLL) circuits for wireless communications thanks to phase noise and other obstacles. This practical book comes to the rescue with a proven PLL design and optimization methodology that lets designers assess their options, predict PLL behavior, and develop cost-effective PLLs that meet performance requirements no matter what IC (integrated circuit) challenges they come up against. This uniquely comprehensive toolkit takes designers step-by-step through operation principles, design procedures, phase noise analysis, layout considerations, and CMOS realizations for each PLL building block. It provides a sample design of a fully integrated PLL for WLAN applications, demonstrating every step from specs definition and circuit characterization to layout generation and circuit schematics.

Numerical simulation is essential to electrical engineers working in antenna design, wireless communications, optical systems, and a host of other areas. This new applications-focused book provides engineers with state-of-the-art methods for predicting simulation accuracy, worked-out results for dozens of real-world problems, the latest accuracy-improving techniques, and detailed guidance for all parameters required to optimize numerical simulations. Bridging the gap between abstract academic treatments and practical engineering needs, this timely work introduces various surface integral equation formulations, approaches to discretizing the integral equations, and measures of solution accuracy. All told, this definitive resource is indispensable for all engineers and software developers working with computational simulation tools in electromagnetics and wave propagation.