Undergraduate Courses 2022-2023
Undergraduate Level
Analog communications
Course Content
Introduction to communication systems, modulation techniques, limitations in communication. Spectral analysis. Energy and power spectral density. Transmission of signals over linear systems. The amplitude modulation (AM) techniques: Carrier amplitude modulation, suppressed carrier double sideband modulation, single sideband modulation, vestigial sideband modulation. Amplitude modulators, demodulators. Exponential modulation techniques: Frequency and phase (FM, PM) modulation. Frequency modulators, demodulators. Frequency division multiplexing (FDM). AM radio broadcasting, FM radio broadcasting, superheterodyne receivers. Stereo FM. Television broadcasting.
Undergraduate Level
Communication Theory
Course Content
Random processes, modeling of noise: Gaussian noise, white noise, narrowband noise. Noise analysis in analog modulation: The effect of noise in systems with amplitude modulation. Comparison of signal-tonoise ratio values after demodulation of systems with carrier amplitude, double sideband, single sideband and vestigial sideband modulation. Noise analysis in exponential modulation systems, threshold effect in frequency modulation. Noise analysis in pulse code modulation systems, comparisons with amplitude and frequency modulation. Correlated transmission techniques, partial response coding.