Designing Bipolar Transistor Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (Artech House Microwave Library)

Radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) are an important part of today's wireless communications devices and infrastructure. An RFIC design approach involving cutting-edge bipolar technologies (GaAs HBT or SiGe HBT) has gained popularity among engineers due to its ability to maximize performance; however, it has been largely ignored in professional reference books. This book fills the gap, offering practitioners a detailed treatment of this increasingly important topic. From discussions of key applications (Bluetooth, UWB, GPS, WiMax) and architectures...to in-depth coverage of fabrication technologies and amplifier design...to a look at performance tradeoffs and production costs, this book arms engineers with complete design know-how for their challenging work in the field.