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Gardner or Best

...Jim Thompson

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and may be all you need.

Roland Best's book is very good. Ulrich Rohde's "Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers" comes under a lot of criticism, but I like it for its discussion of real-world receivers and test equipment. It is neither a user-friendly cookbook or a heartbreaking work of staggering technical genius, but it's still worth owning.

-- jm

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Although I hate feeding Jim's over-developed ego, I do have to endorse one of his choices. I've got a copy of Floyd M. Gardner's "Phaselock Techniques" ISBN 0-471-04294-3. My copy is around fifteen years old - a copy of the second edition, first published in 1979, but since it is a largely mathematical discussion of the subject, it has aged pretty well. I've always found it very useful.

I've not used Phase-Locked Loops : Design, Simulation, and Applications by Roland E. Best (ISBN: 0071412018) but the reviews do suggest that it is less mathematical and more accessible.

Amazon offers 25 copies of Gardner and and only about a dozen of Best.

---------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

This has some of their classic papers. As well as a lot more.

Phase-Locking in High-Performance Systems : From Devices to Architectures (Hardcover) Wiley-IEEE Press (February 21, 2003) ISBN: 0471447277

And his previous 1999 collection would be a good read as well.

Monolithic Phase-Locked Loops and Clock Recovery Circuits : Theory and Design (Paperback) ISBN: 0780311493 Wiley-IEEE Press (April 4, 1996)

Robert