Communications Systems Laboratory. 2 credits, 4 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ( ECE 294 and ECE 421 ) or ( ECE 394 and ECE 421 ). The laboratory experiments are designed using Matlab/Simulink and Software Defined Radio (SDR). The major lab tasks include time and frequency domain analysis of AM and FM signals, generation and detection of digitally modulated waveforms such as BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM which are widely used in wireless communication networks. Through the experiments, students learn how to use Matlab/Simulink to control the SDR, to assess and combat the impairments due to noise and interference, and become familiar with instruments such as spectrum analyzers, audio analyzers and noise generators.