Transceiver Design
 Transceiver
Design Tools
1. Circuit Sage's RFEqns.mcd
(and pdf), a Mathcad routine which contains a collection of equations useful
for RF circuit design.
2. Circuit Sage's system.mcd
(and pdf), a Mathcad routine to calculate the cascaded system
parameters of a transceiver.
3. Larry Lederer's pathcalc.zip,
Mathcad routines to calculate microve path losses.
4. Mathwork's collection of wireless
communication routines in MATLAB/Simulink.
5. A MATLAB routine by sherif rofael for calculating cascaded
receiver noise figure.
 Software
for Transceiver Design
1. Syscalc5
from Arden Tech, $795. receiver design tool.
2. RFSim99,
a free RF design tool.
3. Applied Wave Research's Visual
System Simulator.
4. Elanix's SystemView,
RF/DSP system simulation. Free 1 month evaluation version.
$995. Very nice tool. Recommended.
5. SoftAnalytics' DASE,
a system simulation tool. (similar to simulink) $100.
6. Agilent's RF
Design Environment. (articles)
7. Eagleware's SpectraSys
RF simulation software.
8. Aplac's System
Simulation Module,
9. RFCafe's Cascade
Spreadsheet, $25, and
10. Telsa's block diagram RF
simulator, $995.
11. Simulink,
DSP and Communications design. Takai. Free emulators: scilab
and octave.
12. RFShop's cascaded
receiver spreadsheet. Free.
13. Lance Lascari's cascaded
receiver spreadsheet.
14. RFProp,
a free tool for radio link calculations.
15. AppCAD,
a RF design tool from Agilent.
16. Cascaded
receiver spreadsheet from rfsystemdesign.com.
17. Radiolab
from Radioscape.
18. VisSim
integrates with Mathcad and MATLAB.
19. Herald
radio link calculations.
20. Receiver Toolbox (pdf),
detail receiver design software, by
Gary A.
Appel.
 Online
Tools
1. Anadigic's online receiver
modeling tool.
2. Single
Side Band Demodulation from Agilent.
3. Amplitude
Modulation from Agilent.
4. Superheterodyne
Spectrum Analyzer from Agilent.
5. Cascaded
receiver calculator.
6. Wireless
link loss calculator from GBPPR.
 Transmitter Design Articles
1. Ian Purdie's amplifier design one,
two,
three,
four
and buffer
articles.
2. H. J. Yoo's Basic
concepts in RF circuit design.
3. PCB
layout for low emissions.
4. An article on who
invented the radio?
Receiver
and Transceiver Design Articles
1. Great presentation on GSM/WCDMA
receiver design by Nokia.
2. Receiver
architecture class by Markku Renfors.
3. UCB GSM
transceiver specifications by Chris
Rudell et. al. Receiver
spreadsheet.
4. GSM
receiver design by Kyong-Pil
Jeong et. al.
5. RF Cafe's receiver
worksheet, $25, and workbench,
$25.
6. Engineers.com mxrspur
program.
7. Plextek article on GSM
transceiver design.
8. Transceiver
design article by Rice.
9. CMOS transceiver
design article by P. Vancorenland.
10. CMOS GPS
receiver article by Derek Schaeffer. Stanford CMOS
RF notes.
11. Besser's transceiver
design course.
12. NEC
Research Index. Lots of good papers on transceiver
design. Extremely good.
13. John Scourias overview
of GSM.
14. ESSCIRC
website. Many articles on transceiver design. Very good.
15. Maxim's frequency
planning spreadsheet in Excel.
16. James Caffery's Communication class
notes, with a couple of Mathcad routines.
17. The Basics of RF
System Design by Mark Hunter.
18. GSM
Handset Vulnerabilities from Uniden.
19. RF
Simulation and Modeling by Ken Kundert.
20. AARL's transceiver
design articles.
21. History
of radio articles (bottom of page) and software
radio articles (oxymoron).
22. Estimating Dynamic
Range for WCDMA, Comms Design article.
23. WCDMA
Transceiver design by Cheung
24. Ning Zhang's thesis on wireless
DSP architectures.
25. Frequency
detection by Josie Ammer.
26. Single-chip CMOS
FM radio receiver, by Lucio Rodoni.
27. Nice Radio
propagation models by Linmartz.
28. MTT-8 Newsgroup
can answer some of your RF questions.
29. Old articles on PLLs,
Transceivers, etc.
 Books
on Transceiver Design
1. Parasitic-Aware Optimization of CMOS RF Circuits, Allstot, $125, 1402073992,
Kluwer
2. Practical RF Circuit Design I &
II, Besser and Gilmore,
$92 each. Artech.
3. Transceiver and System Design for Digital Communications,
Bullock, $59.
4. RF Microwave Circuit and Component Design, Chang et. al.
$90. 0471197734.
5. CMOS Wireless Transceiver Design, Crols, $130, 0792399609, Kluwer
6. Practical RF System Design, Egan, $85, 0471200239, Wiley
7. Mixed-Signal VLSI Wireless Design, Farag,
0792386876, $121
8. The RF and Microwave Handbook, Golio, $150, 084938592X, CRC Press
9. CMOS Cellular Receiver Front-ends, Janssens, $125, Kluwer, 0792376374
10. Microwaves and Wireless Simplified, Laverghetta, $69,
0890069085, Artech.
11. Design of CMOS RF Circuits by Tom Lee.
12. Circuit Design for RF Transceivers, Leenaerts, $120, 0792375513
13. Multi-Standard CMOS Wireless Receivers, Li, $105, 1402070322
14. RF Systems, Components and Circuits, Losee, 0890069336,
$105, Artech.
15. RF Circuit Design, Ludwig/Bretchko, 0130953237, $115
16. Radio Receiver Design, McClaning and Vito, $89, 188493207X.
17. High Frequency and Microwave Circuit Design, Nelson, $90, 0849302498, CRC
Press
18. RF Microelectronic Circuits, Papananos, $120, 0792386418
19. Microwave and
RF Design of Wireless Systems, by Pozar (it's on my shelf).
20. Circuit Design for Wireless Communication, Pun et al.,
$110, 1402074158, Kluwer.
21. RF Microelectronics, Razavi, $96, 0138875715.
22. RFIC
Design, Rogers and Plett.
23. RF/Microwave Circuit
Design, by Rohde.
24. CMOS Radio Receivers, Shaeffer, $121, 0792385187, Kluwer
25. RF Design
Guide, by Vismuller (it's on my shelf). $115, 0890067546
26. Distortion Analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits, Wambacq, $148, 092381866, Kluwer
27. CMOS Wireless Transceiver Design, Zolfagharai, $125, 1402072538. Kluwer
28. RF Microwave Electronics, $94, 0130279587, Prentice Hall.
29. Artech House's RF
book list.
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