Software-Defined Radio

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This course explores and analyzes the individual elements required to design a software-defined radio (SDR) receiver. Optimizations and tradeoffs are discussed as the receiver elements are integrated together. For the final project, the functional elements are integrated into a digital receiver system and the performance of the receiver is assessed. Topics include: modulation and demodulation, signal sampling, pulse shaping, bandwidth and data rate, synchronization, linear equalization, coding and decoding, timing recovery, and carrier recovery. Matlab is used to model the receiver elements and to implement the final project. Lecture portion meets with EECE 414. Extra assignments, and/or final project will be required at the graduate level. Prerequisite: EECE 459 or EECE 377 or equivalent. Offered every spring semester.