Students,
Spring quarter: M W 1230-0220
EE 420 (Design in Communications) has been completely revamped since
Spring 2013. The course focuses on providing students with hands-on
experience in design and implementation of modern digital communication
systems using software-defined radio (SDR) technology.
Course will be heavily lab oriented. In addition to laboratory modules, a
final course project will synthesize topics covered in class.
Course topics include software-defined radio architectures and
implementations, digital signaling and data transmission analysis in
noise, digital receiver structures (matched filtering, correlation),
multicarrier communication techniques, radio frequency spectrum sensing
and identification (energy detection, matched filtering), and fundamentals
of radio resource management.
If this is the first time you’ve heard about SDR, take a look here:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/how-software-defined-radio-could[..]
and here: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
We will be using the Ettus Research USRP N210 platform together with the
XCVR2450 daughterboard in the lab modules:
https://www.ettus.com/product/details/UN210-KIT
https://kb.ettus.com/XCVR2450
Each one of you will get a kit with the N210 platform and the XCVR board.
We are currently limiting enrollment to 12, but if more are interested, we
will find ways of accommodating by possibly using the newly released
PlutoSDR platform:
http://www.analog.com/en/design-center/evaluation-hardware-and-software/eva[..]
Cheers,
Payman Arabshahi
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Advancement, Electrical Eng.
Faculty Director, Innovation Training, CoMotion
Principal Scientist, Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/paymana