TY - BOOK AU - Steer,Michael ED - Open Textbook Library TI - Microwave and RF Design: Modules T2 - Open textbook library AV - TA145 PB - Open Textbook Library KW - Engineering KW - Textbooks KW - Electrical Engineering N1 - 1 Introduction to RF and Microwave Modules -- 2 Filters -- 3 Parallel Coupled-Line Filters -- 4 Noise, Distortion, and Dynamic Range -- 5 Passive Modules -- 6 Mixer and Source Modules -- 7 Cascade of Modules N2 - Microwave and RF Design: Modules focuses on the design of systems based on microwave modules. The use of modules has become increasingly important in RF and microwave engineering for rapidly realizing high performance microwave systems. When integration is ultimately to be used, building a system up using modules provides a rapid means of prototyping and testing system concepts. A wide variety of RF modules including amplifiers, local oscillators, switches, circulators, isolators, phase detectors, frequency multipliers and dividers, phase-locked loops, and direct digital synthesizers are considered. Detailed design strategies for synthesizing filters based on parallel coupled lines are presented. The reader will gain an appreciation of design by synthesis. This book is suitable as both an undergraduate and graduate textbook, as well as a career-long reference book UR - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/757 ER -