wireless comm tutorial

TI has many application notes for their CC1000 and CC2000 series wireless chips. Silabs has some interesting chips as well.

A copy of the ARRL Handbook?

Charlie

On a sunny day (Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:11:49 -0800) it happened Charlie E. wrote in :

Exactly! But he would have to build some of the circuits to get some real experience. OK, ten years later now :-)

I have that, too.

Radio Amateurs Handbook, 1981

ARRL Handbook, 1999 ...Jim Thompson

Ditto here, 1949, 1965, but inherited the 1949 edition from my dad. Also The Radio Handbook, editors and engineers, 1966, 1939 ish Terman and later edition with electronic engineering in the title. It's strange how s single volume like Terman's Radio and Electronic Engineering could give a reasonable overview of every aspect of the art at the time. Oh yes, Radio Designers Handbook,1957, from .au and the orange dustjacket ITT book from the 60's.

Am also collecting the 30 volume set published at the end of WWII by the MIT Radiation Laboratory. Published initially by McGraw Hill, but after

More anorakism's I guess, but there you go :-)...

Regards,

Chris

For such needs I'd suggest Chris Bowick's "RF Circuit Design" and Wes Hayward's "Introduction to RF Circuit Design." Both do assume you have a background in basic circuit theory and know what, e.g., phasors are, but otherwise require nothing more than algebra and perhaps first semester calcculus (which can be largely ignored if you're not planning on verifying the derivations).

One thing to keep in mind is that by the time you're pushing much into VHF or higher, parasitics start to become pretty significant and the discrete component values you see in some guy's schematic can differ noticeably from what you calculate with an "ideal" circuit model. (So don't be surprsied when you calculate some capacitor as, e.g., 22pF and the guy has 15pF loaded...)

---Joel

That is a bit of a problem. I have a similar project ahead of me. I'd like the circuit to perform as good as possible without becoming an RF expert.

Why don't you want the circuit to become an RF expert? Does this make you feel threatened?

The Hayward's book should be easy to follow. Some earlier ARRL books were quite good, but some recent books in order to get as large audience as possible, much of the usable information has been dropped.

Most of the older books have been written with lead through components in mind, thus there are quite a significant parasitic inductance and hence the maximum usable frequency is quite low.

Thus, many circuits that were usable up to 100 MHz with lead-through components might be usable up to 1 GHz wish proper surface mount components.

Paul

OK, without ME, myself or I becoming an RF expert :-)

The pre-1990 ones had more construction info. I have about half a dozen.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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In some ways it sounds like you want a current ARRL handbook. Or maybe "Radio Frequency Design" by Wes Haywood.