Electromagnetics for High-Speed Analog and Digital ... (ISBN 0521853508)

Book Description:
Reviews the fundamental electromagnetics of passive and active circuit elements, highlighting various effects and potential problems in circuit design. Contains up-to-date results, techniques, practical examples, illustrations and worked examples. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of electrical engineering, and practitioners in the IC design indsutry. Further resources: www.cambridge.org/9780521853507.

very recent update on microwave integrated circuit:
I buy this book by library budget of my university. Although, I don't read textbook throughly. But I concentrate only Smith chart topic because it is the core of microwave circuit. I found that the equation of the real and imaginary reflection coefficient that can be write as a function of resistance and reactance circuit may be wrong. Eventhough, these equations are derived in page237 of Prof. Ramo textbook and confirmed by Prof. Pozar. I will check these equations later if I hang out from whiskey. But there are something interesting in this book because Prof. Niknejad is well-known in spiral inductor modeling since the work of his Ph.D degree. Chapters on Transformers are very interesting extended version of spiral inductor which can be found many application in modern communication circuits. Additionally, latest version of this book should include some exercises for student.

Waste of time and money:
I have a chance to read first four chapter of this book, so far. In summary you need to be a PhD in RF circuit design to follow this book. It seems that in a rush the author has put together his class notes to publish a test book. I rate this book as a tragic effort for a well known researcher, who is not able to relate to average reader. This is becoming a pattern that scientists from great schools are the worst authors. Unfortunaletly, these authors are so consumed by their smart students that are not aware of the level of knowledge of an average electrical engineering student. In brief, do not buy it if you are not a PhD student.