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You can find here a fine description of last RF design knowhow, with answers to questions I'd like to have before. Thank you Mister LEE!!!

The first chapter of this book gives a history of radio design with schematics. The cmos portion gives a good coverage of RF components, smith charts, CMOS inductors, Bandwidth estimation techniques etc. More an RF issues book than a cmos layout book with almost all layout examples being single components. This is an excellent single issue book focused on Radio design specifically CMOS radio design. Those looking for a book focused on CMOS design should buy this book in addition to another.

Looking through the table of contents of this book and reading the reviews, one is tempted to think that this book will answer a lot of questions on RF design. Unfortunately, it falls very short. This is a gentle introduction to RF design and lacks enough depth to interest a serious RF designer. Several of the important equations and results are simply stated without a fair level of mathematical rigor and that does leave an empty feeling. I gave it two stars because it does cover a broad range of topics and also explains (with it's usual lack of depth) the Hajimiri-Lee phase noise theory. Don't expect to become an expert on RF IC design after reading this book. A better book would be Razavi's Design of Analog CMOS ICs.