ECCE 462 Communication Systems Design and Prototyping
Overview of system design and prototyping techniques. Using computer simulation (Simulink/Matlab, LabVIEW) to design and evaluate the performance of communication systems. Overview of hardware prototyping using SDR and FPGA. Transmitter/receiver design, simulation and implementation: modulation, pulse shaping, RF up-conversion, RF down-conversion, sampling, matched filtering, channel estimation, synchronization, detection.