ECE 459 - Communications, I

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
R LCD 1230 - 1350 T R   1304 Siebel Center for Comp Sci  Christopher Schmitz

Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece459/
Official Description Analog underpinning of analog and digital communication systems: representation of signals and systems in the time and frequency domains; analog modulation schemes; random processes; prediction and noise analysis using random processes; noise sensitivity and bandwidth requirements of modulation schemes. Brief introduction to digital communications. Prerequisite: ECE 313.
Hours 3 hours.
Subject Area Communications
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 313
Course Directors Tangul Başar
Description Introduction to analog and digital modulation techniques, random processes, and power spectral density. Effects of noise on, and bandwidth requirements of, different modulation schemes.
Credit 3 hours.
Goals To provide an introduction to the fundamentals of analog and sampled data communication systems with emphasis on system architectures, signal-to-noise ratios, and bandwidth requirements of amplitude, frequency, and pulse code modulations techniques.
Topics
  • Introduction to analog and digital communication systems
  • Signals and filters
  • Random signals and noise
  • Analog modulation techniques
  • Pulse code modulation techniques
  • Digital modulation techniques
Course Prerequisites ECE 313
Topical Prerequisities
  • Fundamental circuit analysis
  • Fourier and Laplace transform
  • Probability theory
Texts R. Ziemer and W. Tranter, Principles of Communications: Systems, Modulation and Noise, 6th ed.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 2 credits or 67%
Engineering Design: 1 credit or 33%