ECE 457, Communication Systems, Spring 2005

· Instructor: Dr. Selin Aviyente

· Class Hours: MWF 10:20-11:10AM

· Textbook: Principles of Communications, Rodger E. Zimmer and William H. Tranter, John Wiley, 5^th Edition, 2002.

· Office Hours: W 11:30-1:00 pm and Th 9:30-11:00 am or by appointment

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Announcements

· The second midterm is on April 8^th, Friday.

· The first midterm is on February 28^th, Monday.

· Final grades are posted.

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Handouts
Most of the handouts are .pdf files. (Adobe's "portable document format.") The Adobe acrobat reader is available for free from adobe.com.

1. Syllabus
2. Introduction
3. Fourier Series Example (01/14)
4. DSB Example (01/24)
5. AM Example-1, AM Example-2 (01/26)
6. AM Demodulation (01/28)
7. SSB Modulation, SSB Demodulation (02/04)
8. Angle Modulation (02/11)
9. Bessel Functions (02/18)
10. FM Spectrum (02/23)
11. AM-FM Radio (03/14)
12. Digital Data Transmission (04/18)
13. Cellular Communications (04/25)

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Links of interest

• Schedule

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Homework Assignments

• HW 1 (due 01/21) Solutions
• HW 2 (due 01/28) Solutions
• HW 3 (due 02/04) Solutions
• HW 4 (due 02/11) Solutions
• HW 5 (due 02/18) Solutions
• HW 6 (due 02/25) Solutions
• HW 7 (due 03/18) Solutions
• HW 8 (due 03/25) Solutions
• HW 9 (due 04/01) Solutions
• Practice HW Solutions
• HW 10 (due 04/15) Solutions
• HW 11 (due 04/22) Solutions

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Matlab Related Links

• DECS Matlab Help

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Exams

· Exam 1

· Exam 2

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Practice Problems

• Practice Problems for Exam 1 Solutions (2003)
• Exam 1 (2003)
• Exam 1 (2004)
• Practice Exam 2 Solutions (2003)
• Exam 2 (2003)
• Exam 2 (2004) (Disregard the last question, we haven’t covered it in class yet.)
• Practice Exam Final Solutions (2003)
• Final Exam (2003)
• Final Exam (2004)

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If any of these links do not work, please email

aviyente@egr.msu.edu

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