EE511

FALL 2002 COURSE SCHEDULE

Updated 12-06-02

Laurence G. Hassebrook

Class Room 265 AH

lgh@engr.uky.edu (put EE511 in subject)

BOLD ENRTIES MAY NOT BE UPDATED

Time

10am - 10:50am

10am-10:50am

10am-10:50am

Month

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Aug

 

(28) First Day of Classes: Overview of syllabus, discussion of generic communication system.

(30) C2: Overview modulation. Discuss basic usage of integration for comparison and time average of signals.

Sept

(2) Labor Day, NO CLASS

(4) Lecture: C2: Evaluate "dc", power and energy. Introduce FT and some of its properties. Present Duality, shifting, convolution, correlation and multiplication properties.

(6) Lecture: C2: Functions of the FT: Dirac Delta, unit step, sine waves, rectangle, Parsevals theorem.

Sept

(9) Lecture: (section 2.3) Autocorrelation and PSD. Review course schedule. Collect Data for V2.

HW#1: 2-2 dc, rms and power of a periodic wave, 2-17 rect(t/T) time shifting and FT linearity, 2-36 proofs of Fourier Xform properties, 2-38 synthesis of triangle function. (covers sections 2.1-2.2 )

V1: Use MATLAB to determine and plot the magnitude of the FFT of a rectangle function, and a sine wave. The window size for the rectangle function should be 10 times its width and the discrete frequency of the sine wave should be k=4.

(11) Lecture: (sections 2.4-2.5) Orthogonal and Fourier Series

(13) Lecture: (section 2.6) Linear Systems

Sept

(16) Lecture: Identity for getting PSD from Cn, Square Wave synthesis, Bandlimited Signals.

HW #2: 2-49 Orthogonal Signals, 2-54 FS of square wave, 2-62 PSD analysis, 2-70 Linear System analysis. (covers sections 2.3-2.6 )

 

(18) Square Wave synthesis

(20) Sampling Theory

V2: Process class data as a binary spread spectrum signal.

Sept

(23) Lecture: DFT

(25) Chapter 4: Bandpass Signaling Principles and Circuits.

Lecture: Inroduction to AM and DSBSC modulation. Some material drawn from Chapter 5.

HW #3: 2-55 saw tooth wave, 2-82 Sampling, 2-83 DFT zero padding, 2-84 triangle function DFT, 2-91 BPSK

(27) AM continued.

Sept/Oct

(30) Lecture: SSB

(2) Lecture: Introduction to 1st and 2nd order filters.

 

(4) Fall Break, NO CLASS

Sept./Oct

(7) Lecture: Filter Analysis

(9) Odds and ends

HW #4: 4-2 DSBSC, 4-7 Filter analysis, 4-22 AM Superheterodyne, 4-40 SSB-AM receiver design and 4-41 RF allocation.

V4: Visualize a mixer using a MATLAB model. Use it to demodulate OOK modulated signal.

(11) Instructor out of town, NO CLASS

Oct

(14) Review. Included overview of mixer/frequency translation analysis.

(16) EXAM 1

(18) PLL

Oct

(21) Lecture: Costas receiver and quadrature modulation. Discussed subproject transmitter/driver.

 

(23) Lecture: Discussion of project and test problems. Described subproject receiver design.

(25) Discuss IF problem from test. Lecture on FM modulation

HW #5: 4-12 bandpass/quadrature mixing, 4-14 butterworth filter (matlab), 4-26 PLL phase error, 4-27 PLL response, 4-30 PLL Synthesizer.

Oct/Nov

(28) Chapter 5: Lecture PM and FM continued.

(30) Discuss Optics and introduce the idea of Fourier Optics. 

(1) QPSK.

Nov

(4) QAM and final project.

(6) Lecture:

HW #6A: 5-9 DSB-SC from AM, 5-12 SSB modulation using Weaver's technique

MATLAB: 5-59

(8)

HW #6B: ,  5-10 SSB using Hilbert transform 5-18 SSB

MATLAB: 5-66

Nov

(11) Lecture: C3 Natural Sampling

(13) Lecture: Flat Top Sampling

(15)

 

Nov

(18)

HW #7: 3-3 Natural and Flat Top Sampling, 5-51 BPSK demodulation, 5-52 DPSK modulation and demodulation.

MATLAB: 5-75 OFDM

(20)

(22)

Nov

(25) Lecture: Review for Exam

Exam 2: 4 problems, 7pm to 9pm. Room 263 AH

 

(27) No Class

(29) Thanks Giving, No Class

Dec

(2)

HW #8: Chapter 3:3-9 PCM SNR & BW, 3-49 Delta-mod, 3-57 TDM & PAM.

V8A:

Modulate binary data with length N equal to Final Project. The number of data sequences is M=2. Each sequence will represent a different modulation implementation.

(4)

 

V8B:

Demodulator for V8A Data

(6)

 

V8C:

Detector and Comparator for V8A and V8B. Uses original binary sequences from V8A and compares with V8B to determine bit errors.

Dec.

(9) Dead Week

Final Project Preliminary Ranking: Send modulator, demodulator and detector.

(11)

HW#9: Chapter 3: 3-54, 3-56, 3-64 and 6-51

Post Preliminary results

(13) Final Project Competition

ECE Day Event

Dec

(16) Finals Week

(18)

(20) Final Project Web Site Due