ELEN E3701

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Introduction to Electrical Engineering

Introduction

  • Definitions/general block diagrams of analog and digital communication systems
Review of Fourier Transforms

Linear Systems

  • Impulse Response
  • Filters
  • Causality
  • Distortion-Linear
  • Non-linear Distortion
  • Harmonics
  • Bandwidth-Rise-Time
Analog Communications

Linear Modulation and Demodulation

  • Double Sideband
  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Envelope Detection
  • Hilbert Transform
  • Analytic Signal
  • Single- Sideband
  • Vestigial Sideband
  • Frequency Mixing
Angle Modulation- PM and FM

  • Frequency Modulation
  • Narrowband Signals
  • Bessel Functions
  • Carson's Rule- Bandwidth
  • Demodulation
  • Phase Lock Loop-PLL
  • Capture Effect
Universal Modulation

Interference

  • Linear Modulation
  • Angle Modulation
Digital Communications

Nyquist Sampling Theorem

Pulse Amplitude Modulation

Pulse Code Modulation

  • Quantization Noise
  • Delta Modulation
  • Delta-Sigma Modulation
  • Differential PCM (DCPM)
  • Adaptive DCPM
Multiplexing and Multiple Access Techniques

  • FDM and FDMA
  • TDM and TDMA
  • CDMA- An Introduction
Pulse Shaping

  • Nyquist Signals
  • Nyquist I Theorem
  • Nyquist Signals with Raised Cosine Filtering
  • Duobinary Signaling
Introduction to Information Theory

  • Entropy
  • Source Encoding
  • Discrete Memoryless Channel
  • Mutual Information
  • Review of some of Shannon's Results
Random Signals and Noise

  • An Introduction
  • Autocorrelation Function
  • Ergodic Processes
  • Power Spectral Density
  • Gaussian Processes
  • White Gaussian Noise
Introduction to Digital Modulation Techniques

  • BPSK
  • BFSK-Orthogonal
  • Pulse Amplitude Modulation-PAM
  • On- Off Keying-OOK (Line Codes)
Optimum Receiver Structures for Digital Communications

  • Matched Filtering
  • Correlation Detection
  • Probability of Error