Radio frequency engineers are specialists within the electrical engineering field. They work with devices that transmit or receive radio waves , including wireless equipment, radios, and cellular phones. A background in general electronics, physics, and math is needed to design and improve wireless networks. In a descriptive form Radio‐frequency (RF) engineering is about systems that operate at radio frequencies such as microwave frequencies. This chapter begins with a look at the RF subsystem of a typical radio. This gives us a good view of how amplifiers, filters, mixers, and so on, may be organized in a typical RF subsystem. The chapter then elaborates on the “handle with care” aspects of RF and how it differs from low‐frequency circuits. It introduces some mathematical preliminaries, such as how we model RF subsystems and how we perform analysis on nonlinear effects. The chapter then tackles the problem of noise. Besides noise, i...
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