I know for me, I mainly use the "synthesizer on a chip" IC's from Analog Devices/Hittite and National. Their data sheets and ap notes serve as the "textbook". I'm not sure there will be much call going forward for a book on fundamentals that explains how to design synthesizers from first principles using basic building blocks. Having designed PLL's for over 40 years, I know all about how to do this, yet is now a nearly useless skill with the IC's now available. Only the IC designers themselves need these skills. Occasionally I find myself mentoring these guys in the hope of getting better chips to buy :-) (I have a patent on a phase detector design that was made into a chip, but the chip is built by Keysight's captive foundry which doesn't sell much to the merchant market.)
No criticism of the book; it's just a market issue. Rick N6RK On 3/7/2016 4:52 PM, KA2WEU--- via time-nuts wrote:
To all : I have published the following book " Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers: Theory and Design, Ulrich L. Rohde, John Wiley & Sons, August 1997, ISBN 0-471-52019-5." and have since kind of drifted into the VCO und high stability oscillators. The first edition "Digital PLL Frequency Synthesizers - Theory and Design, Ulrich L. Rohde, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 1983 " has sold more then 10 000 copies. Is there any of you out there who would like to take over a needed update and take over the resulting revenues and unfortunately also the work and glory and who feels qualified to so ? As I am more or less now in microwave technology and less in PLL IC's, I hate to see this standard textbook disappear.... Who can help or want to take over? Ulrich In a message dated 3/2/2016 12:04:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, time-nuts@febo.com writes: In a message dated 2/16/2016 9:03:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, time-nuts@febo.com writes:. http://www.synergymwave.com/articles/2016/calculation-of-fm-and-am.pdf _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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