Ben Pope said:
It happens...
As far as I can gather, he's a student, and it's his choice of project. I
guess he'll learn KISS the hard way if he insists on this line of
development.
payam: KISS means Keep It Simple, Stupid. It's a well known engineering
principle. You'll get a better mark for doing something well than
attempting and failing.something hard. Bring yourself down a good few
orders of magnitude in frequency and you'll be fine.
I'm going to disagree here ... as a former electrical engineering
instructor at the University of Michigan ... we rewarded *some*
attempts at very difficult projects, as long as there was a partial
success, and the students had done the work themselves. I recall one
group of students in my class in 1986 ... they built a rather nice TV
receiver - Lo VHF only. There wasn't enough time to finish the
display, so they wired it to the X,Y and Z inputs of the laboratory
scope. I saw a crude picture, and gave them an "A".
The KISS principle belongs to engineering ... not always taught at the
academic level, even though I agree it should be. In the real world,
there ARE designers needed for spectrum analysers and RF generators.
There's nothing wrong with getting started early.
SIOL - thank you for posting the link from Matjaz Vidmar. That is a
very nice summary of VCO design.
payam - Another source I have found helpful:
"Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques"
by Vendelin, Rohde. (and third author I forget, since I lent it out)
Frank Raffaeli
http://www.aomwireless.com/