When I started writing the first edition of RF Power Amplifiers for wireless Communications,some time back in 1997, it seemed that I was roaming a largely uninhabitedlandscape. For reasons still not clear to me there were few, if any, otherbooks dedicated to the subject of RF power amplifiers. Right at the same time, however,hundreds of engineers were being assigned projects to design PAs for wirelesscommunications products. It was not, therefore, especially difficult to be successfulwith a book that was fortuitously at the right place and the right time.
Abstract: This article explains the recent trend in heart-rate and fitness monitors to go wireless toeliminate cables to allow free movement, and allow convenient data collection without the need to plug intheir devices. It details a typical wireless system, using the MAX1472 crystal-referenced phase-lockedloop (PLL) VHF/UHF transmitter.
