Foundations for Microstrip Circuit Design [Hardcover]

Building on the success of the previous?three editions, Foundations for Microstrip Circuit Design offers extensive new, updated and revised material based upon the latest research. Strongly design-oriented, this fourth edition provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of this fast expanding field making it a definitive source for professional engineers and researchers and an indispensable reference for senior students in electronic engineering.

Topics new?to this edition: microwave substrates, multilayer transmission line structures, modern EM tools and techniques, microstrip and planar transmision line design, transmission line theory, substrates for planar transmission lines, Vias, wirebonds, 3D integrated interposer structures, computer-aided design, microstrip and power-dependent effects, circuit models, microwave network analysis, microstrip passive elements, and?slotline design fundamentals.

Preface xxiii

Acknowledgements xxv

1 Introduction to Design Using Microstrip and Planar Lines 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Origins of Microstrip 2

1.3 RF and Microwave Modules 4

1.4 Interconnections on RF and Microwave Integrated Circuits 13

1.5 High-speed Digital Interconnections 15

1.6 Summary 18

References 18

2 Fundamentals of Signal Transmission on Interconnects 19

2.1 Introduction 19

2.2 Transmission Lines and Interconnects 19

2.3 Interconnects as Part of a Packaging Hierarchy 20

2.4 The Physical Basis of Interconnects 21

2.5 The Physics, a Guided Wave 23

2.6 When an Interconnect Should be Treated as a Transmission Line 32

2.7 The Concept of RF Transmission Lines 34

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