ECE-4634: Digital Communications
Description: System and signal level analysis and design for digital communications systems. Review of analog-to-digital conversion and digital baseband communications. Detailed analysis of digital carrier modulation formats including assessment of signal-to-noise ratio, bit error rate, and power and bandwidth efficiency for amplitude-shift keying (ASK), phase-shift keying (PSK), frequency-shift keying (FSK), and Quadrature-Amplitude Modulation (QAM). Matched filter receivers and receiver design, link budgets, and multiple access. Additive-white-noise Gaussian channels. A detailed discussion of random variables will be included to supplement prerequisite material. A C- or better is required in prerequisites.
Pathways: N/A
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 27
Average GPA: 3.08 (B+)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 29.45%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.64%
| David F Zook | 2007 | 16.7% | 50.0% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.88 | 1 |
| Timothy Pratt | 2012 | 71.8% | 28.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.62 | 3 |
| Harpreet Singh Dhillon | 2015 | 25.8% | 57.0% | 10.1% | 0.0% | 5.6% | 1.4% | 3.03 | 3 |
| Thomas W Rondeau | 2005 | 62.5% | 25.0% | 12.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.54 | 1 |
| Dennis G Sweeney | 2004 | 27.3% | 36.4% | 27.3% | 9.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.79 | 1 |
| Lingjia Liu | 2022 | 37.1% | 39.5% | 19.7% | 2.5% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 3.11 | 4 |
| Gaurav G Joshi | 2006 | 33.3% | 66.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.36 | 1 |
| Richard M Buehrer | 2023 | 31.3% | 47.0% | 12.6% | 5.8% | 3.0% | 0.3% | 2.94 | 8 |
| Silva Claudio Da | 2011 | 32.9% | 50.3% | 5.6% | 1.2% | 4.3% | 5.6% | 3.16 | 2 |
| Steven W Ellingson | 2009 | 25.6% | 37.3% | 34.1% | 1.9% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 2.84 | 2 |
| Rahman Mohammad J Abdel | 2016 | 36.8% | 5.2% | 15.8% | 15.8% | 0.0% | 26.3% | 2.86 | 1 |