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: 6
Average GPA: 3.25 (rounds to B+)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 34.85%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%
| Lingjia Liu | 2022 | 37.4% | 45.1% | 15.7% | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.23 | 3 |
| Timothy J Talty | 2024 | 68.8% | 25.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 6.3% | 0.0% | 3.54 | 1 |
| Richard M Buehrer | 2023 | 31.6% | 61.9% | 3.1% | 0.0% | 3.4% | 0.0% | 3.14 | 2 |