EECS 690: Special Topics
Implementation of Digital Communication Systems
Class Syllabus
Spring 2006


Instructor:  Prof. Erik Perrins
Office: 2044 Eaton Hall
Office hours: MWF 10:00-11:00 am, or by appointment
Office phone: 864-7370/864-7770
E-mail: esp "at" eecs.ku.edu

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Class Room and Time:   3154 Learned Hall, MWF 9:00 - 9:50 am.


Textbook:   M. Rice, Digital Communications: A Discrete-Time Approach, avaliable as unbound notes in the text book section of the campus bookstore.


Prerequisites:   EECS 360 or equivalent.
Co-requisites:   EECS 461 or equivalent.


Grading:
Homework (10%)
Simulink Exercises (20%)
Midterm 1 (20%)
Midterm 2 (20%)
Final Exam (30%)


Grading Scale:
100 - 90: A
  89 - 80: B
  79 - 70: C
  69 - 60: D
  59 -   0: F


Exams:   Two midterm exams will be given during the semester.  These will cover course material presented up to the exam time.  The final exam will cover course material presented during the entire semester.

Homework and Simulink exercises:  The homework assignments will be assigned regularly and will be due at 1:00 pm (at the EECS front desk or to my office) on the due date.  The Simulink exercises will be implementation and simulation problems for the digital communication concepts we cover in the class.

Credit for late work:  No credit will be given for work submitted after the due date.

Honesty:  It is expected that the work you submit for evaluation is your own work.  Violations of this expectation will be dealt with most severely. Any kind of academic dishonesty will result in a zero for the project/homework/quiz/exam and might result in an F for the class and further disciplinary action, including probation or expulsion.


Topics to be covered in the class:
Introduction to Wireless Communications
Continuous-time and Discrete-time processing
Linear Modulation and Detection
Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM)
Binary Phase-Shift Keying (BPSK)
Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (QPSK)
Quadrature Amplitude-Shift Keying (QASK)
Link Budgets
Synchronization and Phase-locked Loops (PLLs)
Carrier Phase Recovery
Symbol Timing Recovery
Bit Error Rate (BER) Performance Analysis


Expected Outcomes:
Application of linear algebra in describing digital modulation using the constellation representation.
Application of probability and statistics to bit error rate analysis of digital communication systems.  
Ability to design communication system parameters and understand their trade-offs using a link budget.
Ability to apply matched filter techniques to detection.
Ability to simulate digital communication systems using Simulink and Matlab.
Ability to design the parameters a PLL loop filter to meet given performance specifications.