ECE 437, Digital Communication Systems, Lec. 1, Spring 2000

Instructor:     John A. Gubner, Associate Professor, ECE Department.
                Office: 3615 Engr. Hall.
                Phone: 263-1471.
                E-mail: gubner@engr.wisc.edu
                Homepage: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~gubner/

Credits:        3

Prerequisites:  ECE 331; ECE 436 may be marginally helpful.

Class Meets:    MWF 1:20-2:10 in 2540 Engr. Hall

Goals & Topics: This is a first course digital communication systems.
                Introduction to signal space ideas and probability of
                error calculations for various signaling schemes; e.g.,
                amplitude shift keying (ASK), on-off keying (OOK), phase-
                shift keying (PSK), frequency shift keying (FSK), quadrature
                amplitude modulation (QAM).  Introduction to error-correcting
                codes.

Textbook:       Communication Systems Engineering,
                John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi,
                Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Computer Usage: Some homework assignments may require MATLAB.

Papers:         None.

Projects:       None.

Grading Policy: Homework   15%
                Mid-term   35%
                Final Exam 50%,  Friday, May 19 at 12:25 pm.