EE511 Fall 2008 Class Schedule

Last updated: 12-09-2008

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Room FPAT 265	11:00am-12:15pm	11:00am-12:15pm
Month	Tuesday	Thursday
8=August		(28) Course description, organization. Introduction to Communications
9=September	(2) Lecture: Integration, power, energy.	(4) Lecture: Functions of Fourier Transforms, Power Spectral Density
9=September	(9) Lecture: FT properties and summary HW #1: 2-2 dc, rms and power of a periodic wave, 2-7 dB power, 2-35 FT proof, 2-38 FT (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 duty cycle of the rectangle function is about 1/10 and the discrete frequency of the sine wave should be k=8. Where we have cos(2 pi k n / N) for a sequence length of N. Let N=256 Other problems of interest: 2-2, 2-4, 2-9, 2-18, 2-22, 2-35, 2-38, 2-39.	(11) Lecture: Orthogonality PSD, autocorrelation,
9	(16) NO CLASS		(18) Fourier Series HW #2: 2-14 FT of Gaussian, 2-17 FT of rects, 2-39 FT of rect, 2-18 FT properties. V2: Download and follow directions from V2 Word Doc. Process 2005 class data as a binary spread spectrum signal. (NO sharing code but you can talk about it all you want with other people). Problems of interest 2-15, 2-16, 2-19, 2-20, 2-27, 2-28, 2-35
9	(23) FS continued, Linear Systems	(25) DFT and Sampling Theory
9	(30) Sampling Theory HW #3:2-44 PSD, 2-48 Pulse Train proof, 2-49 orthogonality, 2-55 (Part “a” only) FS. Prob of interest: 2-46, 2-49, 2-51,2-53, 2-61, 2-64,2-68, 2-69	(2) Natural and Flat Top Sampling and MATLAB techniques
10=October	(7) TDM, Eye Diagrams, raised cosine filter, Differential coding. HW #4: 2-69 PTF, 2-77 comb function (MATLAB), 2-82 Sampling, 2-88 raised cosine filter (MATLAB). HW#4B: Visualization 4 (see EE511 web site) Problems of interest: 2-54, 2-55,2-69, 2-70, 2-71 EB,2-77, 2-81, 2-82, 2-83, 2-84, 2-85, 2-86, 2-87, 2-88.	(9) PWM
10	(14) Integrate and Dump. Delta Modulation HW #5: 3-3, Natural and Flat Top, 3-6 PAM Manchester, 3-51 DM, 3-56 TDM, 3-57 Hybrid TDM. Problems of interest: 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-26, 3-40, 3-41, 3-43, 3-44, 3-49, 3-50, 3-54, 3-55, 3-56, 3-57.	(16) Analog Filter Design Project A: Download last years Final project from the web. Rewrite a modulator to perform On/Off keying. Use approximately 16 cycles per bit and 16 samples per cycle. How many bits are you trying to transmit? Show first 10 bit values after On/Off keying. Show DFT of the signal prior to entering the channel. Show the DFT of the output from the channel. You may have 2 people per team.
10 Midterm	(21) Filter Design Nodal Analysis and DSSC	(23) Review for exam I (study 2.71 for Equivalent BW problem): DSSC continued HW #6: 3-10 SNR quantization, 3-12 PCM design with SNR optimization, 3-44 raised cosine. V6 ISI Visualization. See ee511 web page.
10	(28) EXAM I: 1 crib sheet both sides, FT table will be provided. No text books, no notes, no communication devices.	(30) NO CLASS
11=November	(4) NO CLASS: ELECTION DAY	(6) PLL HW #7: 4-1 complex envelop, 4-3 DSSC, 4-11 modulation analysis, 4-12 bandpass and quadrature mixing. Nodal Analysis problem, see web site Problems of interest: 4-1,4-2,4-3,4-4, 4-9,4-10, 4-11,4-12
11	(11) Super Heteradyne	(13) NO CLASS
11	(18) Super Heteradyne, SSB + IF, VSB HW #8: 4-16 THD, 4-28 PLL, 4-30 PLL, 4-36 superheterodyne Problems of interest: 4-14,4-24,2-26,4-29,4-30	(20) Quadrature modulation, Costas Receiver Project B: Download last years Final project from the web. Rewrite a modulator to perform DSBSC where a high bit has an amplitude of 1 and a low bit has an amplitude of -1. Use approximately 16 cycles per bit and 16 samples per cycle. How many bits are you trying to transmit? Show first 10 bit values after On/Off keying. Show DFT of the signal prior to entering the channel. Show the DFT of the output from the channel. Rewrite a modulator program to demodulate the bit stream and use Bcheck to verify the reception of the data. You may have 2 people per team.
11	(25) Quadrature detector, PM and FM and Carson’s rule HW #9: 5-4 AM, 5-9 DSB, 5-11 Hilbert Transform, 5-12 Weavers method of SSB, 5-17 USSB-AM. Problems of interest: 5-2,5-5,5-7, 5-8, 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 5-12,5-17.	(27) NO CLASS THANKSGIVING
12	(2) HW #10: 5-18 SSB-AM, 5-23 FM Carsons rule, 5-42 WBFM, 5-51 BPSK with Costas loop, 5-52 DPSK problems of interest 5-18, 5-19, 5-23, 5-24, 5-26, 5-36, 5-41,5-50, 5-51,5-52	(4) EXAM II
12=December Dead Week	(9) HW #11:5-60 BPSK, 5-61 QPSK and OFDM, 5.67 QPSK, 5-69 MSK type I. problems of interest: 5-60, 5-62, 5-66, 5-69, 5-70, 5-71	(11) FINAL PROJECT: Send in Baseline files “create, modulator and demodulator”. You will need a group name and members. Send these to me and I will rank you.
12. Finals	(16)	(18)FINAL PROJECT DUE 9pm