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This spring graduate ECE course considers digital data
communication with noise, modulation including digital phase coding, codes including
linear, block, cyclic, convolutional, and decoding including TDMA, and spread
spectrum and CDMA. The course is
taught on Monday evenings at Ft. Washington. Click here for a full course synopsis in PDF format.
Your text has a CD-ROM with the Student Version of
SystemView inside the back cover. Make
sure that this CD-ROM is there when you buy your text, particularly if it is
used. If your CDROM is missing or
damaged, see me ASAP.
Session format, subject to evolution as the class
proceeds, is three periods:
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Instructor presents examples and homework from
last time, and go through homework and examples; about an hour
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Short break
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Instructor presents material and assign
readings and homework for next time; about an hour
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Seminar session; course topics discussion,
student presentation, term project milestone presentation, or other topics
·
When a quiz is given, it will follow the break
instead of a lecture about new material
Course Materials as they become available
SystemView Primer (PDF, 139kB, PowerPoint handout, 6
slides per page)
SystemView Example (PDF, 164 kB) (PowerPoint, 299 kB) (SystemView system file, 24 kB)
Study plan: Suggested homework problems and questions
from the text
Jan 25 – Course overview, SystemView principles, Baseband
Signals, Messages, Characters, and Symbols, Formatting Analog Information
Feb 1 – Sources of Corruption, Pulse Code Modulation, Uniform
and Non-uniform Quantization, Baseband Modulation/Demodulation/Detection
Feb 8 – Signals and Noise, Detection of Binary Signals in
Gaussian Noise, Inter-symbol Interference, Equalization; SystemView full version available on CDROM.
Feb 15 – Why Modulate, Digital Bandpass Modulation
Techniques, Detection of Signals in Gaussian Noise, Coherent Detection,
Non-coherent Detection
Feb 22 – Complex signals and signal processing; Term
Project Assignment; First Examination
Mar 1 – Error Performance, M-ary Signaling and
Performance, Waveform Coding, Error Control, Structured Sequences, Linear
Block Codes
Mar 8 – SystemVue
and the Senior Projects
Mar 15
– Error-Detecting and Correcting Capability, Cyclic Codes, Well-Known Block
Codes
Mar 22 – Convolutional Encoding and Decoding, Properties
of Convolutional Codes, Other Convolutional Decoding Algorithms
Mar 29 – Goals of the Communications System Designer,
Error Probability Plane, Nyquist Minimum Bandwidth, Shannon-Hartley Capacity
Theorem, Bandwidth Efficiency Plane; Second Examination
April 5 – Modulation and Coding Trade-Offs
April 12 – Defining, Designing, and Evaluating Digital
Communication Systems, Bandwidth-Efficient Modulation
April 19 – Clean-up and review
April 26 – Term Project Demonstrations and
Presentations; Term Project Reports Due
May 1
– Special Study Session
May 10 – FINAL EXAMINATION (Click date for
Study Guide) (Click here for cover sheet with Final Exam rules – open
book, open notes, etc.) (Click
here for the examination with responses)
Summary of Term Project Written Communications, Updated Occasionally
HERE
Links to pages for previous years, with materials
EE521
Spring 2005
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