Contents
1 Architectures of radio systems 3
1.1 Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.1.1 Heterodyne architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.1.2 Complex filters: SSB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.2 Digital receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.2.1 Digital architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2 Linear and non-linear use of bipolar junction transistors 17
2.1 Topology and biasing selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192.1.1 Biasing of the common emitter topology . . . . . . . . 202.2 Analysis of the circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.2.1 Analysis of the bias point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232.2.2 Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.3 A design example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.3.1 Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.4 Non-linear issues on transistor amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.4.1 Fight non-linearity : Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . 342.4.2 Fight non-linearity : Intermodulation . . . . . . . . . . 35
3 Applications of non-linearity 38
3.0.3 Amplifier with emitter resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . 403.1 Tuned amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423.2 Oscillators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463.2.1 Another technique for realizing oscillators . . . . . . . 493.3 Logarithmic Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503.3.1 Bipolar logarithmic amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563.3.2 Piecewise Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573.4 Mixers and Multipliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
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