This Second Edition of Complete Wireless Design not only supplies the reader with a solid practical grounding in the latest RF circuit and systems operation, but also explains, in step-by-step detail, how to plan, design, simulate, build, and test a complete RF/microwave voice and data wireless radio, all the way from the discrete circuit level to the finished wireless system. Sections of all chapters within this new edition have been expanded, enhanced, and fully updated, with the addition of new explanatory figures that have been optimized for clarity. New chapters have been added that detail RF testing procedures, printed circuit board layout, RF software simulation techniques, and small antenna design. A major new feature in this book is the worked-out design examples (Quick Examples) with full RF simulation results. The enclosed, comprehensive computer CD has also been expanded and updated to include more free, cutting-edge RF programs, and will enable the reader to design and simulate virtually any lumped or distributed RF circuit, or system typically needed in low-power consumer design.

Unlike many wireless books, Complete Wireless Design does not simply present predesigned circuits and expect readers to modify them in some haphazard fashion for their own wireless applications, nor does the book present overly complex equations for the design of wireless circuits and systems which most readers, even engineers, would have difficulty understanding, much less applying. Instead, Complete Wireless Design will allow the reader to easily and quickly, by employing basic algebra and the enclosed software programs, design cutting-edge oscillators, amplifiers, mixers, filters, PLLs, frequency multipliers, switches, microstrip elements, AGC loops, power splitters, attenuators, diplexers, antennas, and PCBs, as well as plan the entire wireless communications system. Any supplementary information, text or software updates, or errata for the Second Edition of Complete Wireless Design will be posted at http://cotter.sayre.googlepages.com/home.