Systematic Modeling and Analysis of Telecom Frontends and their Building Blocks [Paperback]

Foreword. Contributing Authors. Contents. Symbols and Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 1.1 Structured analysis, a key to successful design. 1.1.1 Electronics, a competitive market. 1.1.2 Analog design: A potential bottleneck. 1.1.3 Structured analog design. 1.1.4 Structured analysis. 1.2 This work. 1.2.1 Main contributions. 1.2.2 Math, its a language. 1.3 Outline of this book. 2 Modeling and analysis of telecom frontends: basic concepts. 2.1 Models, modeling and analysis. 2.1.1 Models: what you want or what you have. 2.1.2 Good models. 2.1.3 The importance of good models in top-down design. 2.1.4 Modeling languages. 2.1.5 Modeling and analysis: model creation, transformation and interpretation. 2.2 Good models for telecommunication frontends: Architectures and their behavioral properties. 2.2.1 Frontend architectures and their building blocks. 2.2.2 Properties of frontend building block behavior. 2.3 Conclusions. 3 A framework for frequency-domain analysis of linear periodically timevarying Systems. 3.1 The story behind the math. 3.1.1 Whats of interest: A designers point of view. 3.1.2 Using harmonic transfer matrices to characterize LPTV behavior. 3.1.3 LPTV behavior and circuit small-signal analysis. 3.2 Prior art. 3.2.1 Floquet theory. 3.2.2 Lifting. 3.2.3 Frequency-domain approaches. 3.2.4 Contributions of this work. 3.3 Laplace-domain modeling of LPTV systems using Harmonic Transfer Matrices. 3.3.1 LPTV systems: implications of linearity and periodicity. 3.3.2 Linear periodically modulated signal models. 3.3.3 Harmonic transfer matrices: capturing transfer of signal content between carrier waves. 3.3.4 Structural properties of HTMs. 3.3.5 On the ?-dimensional nature of HTMs. 3.3.6 Matrix-based descriptions for arbitrary LTV behavior. 3.4 LPTV system manipulation using HTMs. 3.4.1 HTMs of elementary systems. 3.4.2 HTMs of LPTV systems connected in parallel or in serlÓ4