SYLLABUS
ELEC
3060 – WIRELESS DESIGN LABORATORY - Spring 2009
AU Catalog
Data: ELEC 3060. WIRELESS DESIGN LAB (1) LAB. 3. Pr.,
ELEC 3400. Laboratory experiments geared towards understanding the
implementation and testing of components used in wireless communication
systems.
Professor: Dr.
Thaddeus Roppel, Broun 214, Office Tel. (334) 844-1814, roppeth@auburn.edu
Textbook: Communication
Systems Modelling with T.I.M.S.
, Emona Instruments, Sydney Australia (available at ftp link provided on the class
web site).
Reference: T.I.M.S.
System User's Guides provided in lab and online.
Course
Objectives:
1. To understand key components of analog and digital wireless
voice transmission
2. To understand key components of wireless digital data
transmission
3. To be able to design key components of a wireless transceiver
4. To be able to communicate experimental results orally and in
writing
Prerequisites
by topic:
1. Communications systems
2. Electromagnetic Waves
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Topics: |
Class schedule (lab.periods
– 3 hrs. each): |
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1. Introduction to T.I.M.S. laboratory
equipment |
1 |
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2. Analog modulation: DSBSC, AM,
Envelopes, SSB, sampling, PAM, power measurements, FM |
5 |
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3. Digital modulation: PRBS, Eye
patterns, Line coding, FSK, BPSK, Constellations, PCM, BER, QAM, DSSS and
CDMA |
6 |
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4. Design projects using DSP |
2 |
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5. Tests and review (quizzes throughout
the semester) |
1 |
Grading:
Lab
Reports: 50 %
Quizzes: 20 %
Design project
oral presentation: 15 %
Design project
written report: 15 %
Homework:
Assignments will consist of reading in preparation for each week's experiments,
and preparing a lab report to be submitted the week following the experiments.
Lab
Reports: Each team will submit one lab
report covering all experiments performed in the lab. The report will be due in
hardcopy as you come into lab the following week. Reports will not be accepted by email. Late reports: Reports submitted later than
the start of class will be docked 50% immediately, then an additional 25% for
each 24 hours past the due time. Plan ahead. “The printer wasn’t working” is
NOT a valid excuse. If you are submitting a report late, it must be handed to a
departmental secretary in 200 Broun Hall, who will then place a time stamp on
it and deliver it to your GTA. You must tell her who your GTA is when you
submit it.
Class
attendance is required. If you miss your section meeting for any reason, you
must schedule a makeup with your GTA. Typically this will occur during the
designated makeup session near the end of the semester. Failure to makeup any one experiment will
result in a course grade reduction of 33% (automatic D). Failure to makeup two
experiments will result in automatic failure.
You may not show up to another section meeting the same week without
approval from both GTA’s involved.
Quizzes will be
given each week. They may cover any material from previous experiments, as well
as pre-lab assignments for the current week.
Special
Accommodations: Updated October, 2008. Students who need special accommodations in class, as provided
for by the American Disabilities Act, should arrange a confidential meeting
with the instructor during office hours the first week of classes - or as soon
as possible if accommodations are needed immediately. You must bring a copy of
your Accommodation Memo and an Instructor Verification Form to the meeting. If
you do not have these forms but need accommodations, make an appointment with
the Program for Students with Disabilities, 1244