Thanks, that why I try to keep it alive, Ulrich In a message dated 3/9/2016 5:08:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, brent.ev...@gmail.com writes:
Ulrich - I checked my bookshelf last night and sure enough, Rhode's "Digital PLL Frequency Synthesizers - Theory and Design" is still sitting faithfully there (I thought it might have been lost with my missing copy of "Microwave Transistor Amplifiers by Gonzales). I remember getting it directly from you probably right around 1996, when I was working on PLL's at Watkins Johnson as a young (and back then, "still-relevant" engineer). I remember there was quite a dearth of information on practical PLL theory and design (at least that I could find), and that it (your book) was essentially out of print. I felt lucky to have found that you still had a pile of them for sale. I moved on from that work shortly after and never knew that a new edition was re-incarnated as "Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers: Theory and Design". To me, your PLL book, and others like Gonzales and Clarke and Hess's "Communication Circuits: Analysis and Design" and some of the old HP app notes were the "Art of Electronics" of my RF world. Brent KD4VMM On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Magnus Danielson <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org > wrote: > Hi Ulrich and Jim, > > On 03/08/2016 07:11 PM, jimlux wrote: > >> The people who really know about this stuff do it for a living, all the >> time, and probably don't have a lot of free time. I've done a couple of >> book chapters, and it's an enormous amount of work, and that's with >> collaborators and editors to help. I suspect that for these people the >> problem is not a lack of "funding" from the employer, but, rather, that >> there is more work to do than people to do it. >> >> And, often, the "state of the art" is either proprietary or subject to >> other controls on distribution. Unless you are in a special situation >> (e.g. you own the company, or it's a small company and the owner(s) >> agree), I can see management not seeing the "value added proposition" >> for letting your talented, knowledgable PLL guru work on getting into a >> form suitable for publication: they'd rather you be making boxes. >> > > Indeed, this is really a problem. At the same time, people do need to > learn the basics and honestly, there haven't been many good books but lots > of half-crap books. > > There is also many aspects which you need to learn as concepts, even if > you use gift-wrapped designs. > > At the same time, there is always a generation shift, there is always new > designers that need to learn how to do this, that need the advice. > I find that I teaches basics regularly to my colleagues, so that they can > design a better solutions. > > I think there is value in keeping a good reference book maintained and up > to date. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.