RF System Design of Transceivers for Wireless Communications

It is a good book but the author doesn't seem to understand the concept of KTo/Hz which cannot go below -174 dbm/Hz .This applies in any analysis only on matched cases . A filter rejects by mismatch and even in the nonideal case when there is a small thermal loss , Pozar comes in his RF system book with a formula that allows noise to go below -174dbM/Hz. Weismuller and Egan assume in their books an ideal filter so automatically there is no thermal loss in the rejection band i.e. 0 dB noise figure and noise floor definitely goes below -174dBm/Hz (because of pure mismatch). The author in his FDD duplexer analysis doesn't seem to realize that

Extremely well written book! I recommend it strongly to all RF engineers! The author has taken pains to dwell on many little understood aspects of RF.

I came across this book after I went through a few books on RF system design. I guess I can confidently say that the book covers the most important aspects of the RF system design such as noise figure, inter-modulation and adjacent channel power ratio calculations. The cascaded system analysis (Noise figure and OIP calculations)are explained in a very straightforward and easy to follow manner. Of particular interest is the section on the architectural trade-off analysis. This section provides a very clear overview of fundamental issues that impact RF system design in most practical environments.This book has room for improvement though. In particular, the ADC noise figure analysis for the band-pass sampling (appendix 3D) does not cover the ADC non-linearity, the jitter noise and the aliasing due to sub-sampling. Moreover, most of the examples are around the mobile hand-set systems. In my opinion expanding the analysis to the base-station could benefit some readers in this area.Reader can find himself annoyed by many typo errors in the bibliography section. I am expecting these minor issues to be resolved over the subsequent editions. Overall, I recommend this book for RF system designers who need an up-to-date encyclopedia in this area.

I have to say this is one of the books I have benefied the most from. It shows the auther truely understands the topic both from theoritical and practical aspects.