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PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS OF RF CIRCUITS

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Interdisciplinarity is essential to RF circuit design. An RF designer is a system designer, an analogue circuit designer, a microwave circuit designer, and a passive and active component designer.

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    John R. Long

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Tasić, A., Serdijn, W.A., Long, J.R. (2006). PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS OF RF CIRCUITS. In: Adaptive Low-Power Circuits for Wireless Communications. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5250-2_2

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