Time

10am - 10:50am

10am-10:50am

10am-10:50am

Month

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Aug

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

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

Aug

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

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

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

HW#1: 2-3 power of a square wave, 2-17 rect(t/T) time shifting and FT linearity, 2-35 proof of multiplication property, 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.

Sept

(3) Labor Day, NO CLASS

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

(7) Lecture: (section 2.6) Linear Systems

Sept

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

HW #2: 2-49 Orthogonal Signals, 2-51 FS of square wave, 2-64 PSD analysis, 2-69 Linear System analysis. (covers sections 2.3-2.6 )

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

(12) Sampling Theory

(14) No class due to illness.

Sept

(17) DFT and Bandwidth Definitions

(19) SubProject 1, Plan A OOK and harmonic BFSK with 2nd clock channel

HW #3: 2-62 triangle wave, 2-82 Sampling, 2-83 DFT zero padding, 2-86 sine wave DFT, 2-91 BPSK

(21) LASER QUEST FIELD TRIP

Sept

(24) Lecture: Review tools for project, SubProject 1 Plan B (BFSK) and Plan C (BPSK).

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

Lecture: Inroduction to AM and DSBSC modulation.

(28) AM continued.

Oct

(1) Lecture: SSB

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

HW #4: 4-2 DSBSC, 4-4 Filter analysis, 4-22 AM Superheterodyne, 4-38 SSB-AM receiver design and 4-41 RF allocation.

(5) Fall Break, NO CLASS

Oct

(8) Lecture: Filter Analysis

(10) PLL

(12) Review

Oct

(15) EXAM 1

(17) PLL and subproject 1

(19)

Oct

(22)

(24) SUBPROJECT 1 DUE

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

Oct

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

HW #5: 4-12 quadrature mixing, 4-28 PLL Noise, 4-29 PLL performance, 4-30 PLL Synthesizer.

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

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

Nov

(5) SUBPROJECT 2 DUE

(7)

(9)

Nov

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

(14) Discuss problems due Friday. Go over Hilbert Transform.

(16) Lecture: Discuss Problems in HW #7.

HW #6: 5-12 SSB modulation using Weaver's technique, 5-18 SSB demodulation

Nov

(19) HW #7: 5-51 BPSK demodulation, 5-52 DPSK modulation and demodulation.

(21) EXAM 2

(23) Thanks Giving, NC

Nov

(26) Lecture: Fourier Optics

SUBPROJECT 3 DUE

(28)

(30)

PRELIMINARY DUE

Dec

(3) Dead Week

(5)

(7) CONTEST and ECE DAY 12noon, Basement of Civil Engineering Building.

Dec

(10) Finals Week

(12)

(14) WEB REPORTS DUE