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Summary: Fantastic, wonderful, invaluable. Period.
Review: At my place of work I have access to *every* RF/wireless circuit and system design book published since 1969, covering everything from books for the beginner all the way up to books for the extremely advanced RF engineer. In other words, I know what is out there when it comes to wireless circuit design books. Complete Wireless Design fills the huge gap between the cookbook/beginner style of book [which has too much missing info; neglects the disastrous RF design "gotch-yas"; and is not adaptable enough for real life design], and the advanced calculus riddled books [which can be too limited in scope; sometimes are totally incomprehensible; don't address the practical side of engineering; and rarely bother to show detailed schematics of the circuits they are so deeply discussing]. Complete Wireless Design's target is distinctly the practical, and not the theoretical [NOTE: Some university-based teachers or certain engineers may be put-off by this strongly practical, no-nonsense "let's get the circuit designed NOW!" approach, but since my own day to day work pressures force me to swiftly design RF circuits, I personally do not have a problem with this]. While no book can, obviously, be totally complete, Complete Wireless Design comes as close to this ideal as I have seen in my almost 30 years of hardcore RF circuit design experience.
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Summary: Excellent book on Wireless Design
Review: Circuits and Wireless Communication designers and Enthusiasts....ENJOY!A true one-of-a-kind guide to wireless "design". It guides you through the design process step-by-step. The author presents design procedure for every circuit that make up a complete wireless system. He also provides design hints, tips and tricks. Primarily for Electrical Engineers and circuit and electronics enthusiasts, this book is a must for its primary audience. There's so much valuable information and experience in this book you won't find anywhere else. The book is not intended for people with no electronics or circuit design background. People without such background will find the book difficult to follow and comprehend. Communication designers and engineers, however, will be extremely delighted with this book.
I'm greatly thankful for the author for his excellent book.
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Summary: Excellent book on Wireless Design
Review: Circuits and Wireless Communication designers and Enthusiasts....ENJOY! A true one-of-a-kind guide to wireless "design". It guides you through the design process step-by-step. The author presents design procedure for every circuit that make up a complete wireless system. He also provides design hints, tips and tricks. Primarily for Electrical Engineers and circuit and electronics enthusiasts, this book is a must for its primary audience. There's so much valuable information and experience in this book you won't find anywhere else. The book is not intended for people with no electronics or circuit design background. People without such background will find the book difficult to follow and comprehend. Communication designers and engineers, however, will be extremely delighted with this book.
I'm greatly thankful for the author for his excellent book.
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Summary: The "What you always wanted to know" Design Book
Review: It is not often that you find such a good book that packs such a lot of helpful design information in one volume. Not only does the author get straight to the point without boring you with complicated mathematics and derivations like in some books (there are enough clogging my bookshelf), but also his simple formulas with short and powerful theory is enough to get the job 99% done. He proves that you don't have to get into very elaborate and complicated math routines to get a working design on the table. Sure there are instances where that is needed but as he explains in the book most of the number crunching and optimization can be done by CAD programs these days, leaving it unnecessary for example to hand calculate filter values by hand in these modern times. It is also nice to have a variety of programs included on the CD-rom. Even as a designer for the last 15+ years this book "taught an old dog some new tricks". This will help especially the rookie designer to get working designs in a short time and to avoid pitfalls. Definitely one to have on your bookshelf!
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Summary: A great book for practical RF Product designers
Review: One of the best books on RF. I have seen lot of books on RF but no one talks as practical as this book and also not so many areas covered. Simple design steps with simple to use formulae are given for many important RF subcircuits like amplifiers,mixers, Oscillators and support circuits. RF is a very complicated field and one can easily get lost with lot of equations and classical approach. This is the perfect book for those who are starting the practical RF design. Those already in the field also have good information in this book. Overall a must book in the personal library. I wish I had this book four years back.
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Summary: The wireless design programs alone are worth the price!
Review: The free wireless circuit design and simulation software that comes with this book have proven extremely valuable to me, unlike many such programs that come with other electronics books. I am able to build a complete amplifier, filter, or oscillator and simulate it with one of the enclosed programs, Puff. This ups my confidence level that the design will function in real life. The other program, AppCad, will actually automatically design FET and bipolar amplifier bias circuits, detectors, microstrip, systems design calcs, etc. I hav'nt tried the EasyPLL phased locked loop design program or the Sonnet microwave simulation software. Mr. Sayre's book has become one of the more popular ones on rf circuit design for a very good reason: It presents its material in such a way that even a software engineer such as myself can design many of the various bit and pieces of a voice or data radio by just using this one book. As far as I am concerned this is really an achievement, and is valuable to all who are interested in radio design from the low MHz to the high GHz regions. It covers a very large range of information needed on RF engineering, and not only discrete level circuit design, but also systems design, digital and analog modulation, testing and troubleshooting, PCB layout, propagation, EMI, prototyping, etc. It is a great rf book with a large variety of indispensable designs and formulas.
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Summary: An eminently PRACTICAL design guide
Review: This book covers a very wide area of wireless discrete circuit design (while using only straightforward algebraic equations). Anyone from an engineer to a ham would benefit greatly from the knowledge contained in this book. It covers the step-by-step design of the entire gammit of devices that would be required in any radio: amplifiiers, filters, transmission lines, oscillators, filters, mixers, PLLs, etc., along with the theory of their operation, as well as a relatively easy to follow section on the common communications systems that contain these types of circuits. I would definetly say that this book should be in every wireless designers library.
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Summary: A comprehensive book on RF design of wireless circuits
Review: This book covers a very wide area of wireless discrete circuit design (while using only straightforward algebraic equations). Anyone from an engineer to a ham would benefit greatly from the knowledge contained in this book. It covers the step-by-step design of the entire gammit of devices that would be required in any radio: amplifiiers, filters, transmission lines, oscillators, filters, mixers, PLLs, etc., along with the theory of their operation, as well as a relatively easy to follow section on the common communications systems that contain these types of circuits. I would definetly say that this book should be in every wireless designers library.
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Summary: Far from complete
Review: This book is another of the "cookbook" type of circuit design books that have been coming out. Wireless design has been going on for many years. There are much better books out there for much less money. Introduction To RF Design by Wes Hayward for starters
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Summary: Far from complete
Review: This book is another of the "cookbook" type of circuit design books that have been coming out. Wireless design has been going on for many years. There are much better books out there for much less money. Introduction To RF Design by Wes Hayward for starters
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