| No. | Date | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 6/21 | Introduction | Chapter 1 |
| 2 | Wed 6/23 | Overview of communications | handouts |
| 3 | Fri 6/25 | Pulse Amplitude Modulation | Chapter 7 |
| 4 | Mon 6/28 | Nyquist pulses and eye diagrams | Chapter 7 |
| 5 | Wed 6/30 | Minimum-distance receiver design | Chapter 7 |
| 6 | Fri 7/2 | min distance for PAM; complex envelopes. | Chapters 7, 2 |
| 7 | Wed 7/7 | in-phase & quadrature; passband PAM. | Chapters 2, 8 |
| 8 | Fri 7/9 | QAM transmitters & receivers. | Chapter 8 |
| 10 | Mon 7/12 | min-distance receiver for complex PAM | Chapter 8 |
| 12 | Wed 7/14 | Quiz #1 | |
| 13 | Fri 7/16 | The gradient algo for minimizing a function of N variables | notes |
| 14 | Mon 7/19 | deriv of the equiv discrete-time channel; Equalization. | Chapter 8 |
| 15 | Wed 7/21 | Adaptive equalization using the LMS algorithm | Chapter 7 |
| 16 | Fri 7/23 | Decision-Feedback Equalization | Chapter 7 |
| 17 | Mon 7/26 | Properties of AWGN | Chapter 2 |
| 18 | Wed 7/28 | Performance Analysis of PAM in AWGN | Chapters 7, 8 |
| 19 | Fri 7/30 | Quiz #2 | |
| 20 | Mon 8/2 | Bandwidth and Power Efficiency of PAM | Chapter 8 |
| 21 | Wed 8/4 | BW and Power efficiency of M^2 QAM | Chapter 8 |
| 31 | Fri 8/6 | Analysis of PSK, FSK; comparison | Chapter 8 |
| - | Mon 8/9 | Final Examination, 11:30am-2:20pm |