Communications Electronics EEET-313-2210  -- Fall 2020

Course Schedule

 

EEET-313: Communications Electronics

 

Below is a class schedule for Fall of 2020.  The topics covered each week may change and the schedule will be updated accordingly.  The column In Class Split indicates which group will attend the in-class session.  The other split will attend on-line synchronously via ZOOM

 

 

Week

Date

In Class Split

Class Topic

Material/Resources

Reading/Video

Assignments Due

Quiz Due

0

 

NA

NA

 

CE_Introduction
MATLAB_SIMULINK_Installation
RTL-SDR Support Package

MATLAB On-Ramp
Simulink On-Ramp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

8/19/2020

1

Course Introduction/Communications Systems
Emag Spectrum/Bandwidth/Wavelength

 

Beasley Chapter 1 pp 1-7

Simulink installation
RTL-SDR installation 

 

1

8/21/2020

2

What is an RF Carrier.  Why is it needed?
Bandwidth, Frequency, Wavelength
Parameters of the carrier, and what can be modulated?

 

Beasley Chapter 1 pp 1-7

Communications System Block Diagram Activity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

8/26/2020

1

Voltage Gain / Power Gain / Decibels/BANDWIDTH/INFORMATION

 

Beasley Chapter 1 pp 7-18

 

Quiz 1

2

8/28/2020

2

Fourier Representation of Periodic Signals

 

Beasley Chapter 1 pp 19-25

Simulink Capture of on-air signals -- BW measurement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

9/2/2020

1

RC Active Filters

 

 

 

Quiz 2

3

9/4/2020

2

Non-Ideal Components and Resonance

 

Bowick Chapter 1 pp 1-11
Bowick Chapter 2 pp 23-29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

9/9/2020

1

LC Filters/BW and Cheby

 

Bowick Chapter 3 pp 37-56

 

Quiz 3

4

9/11/2020

2

Impedance Matching Networks 1

 

Bowick Chapter 4 pp 63-72
Beasley Chapter 4 Section 4-3 Supplemental

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

9/16/2020

1

Impedance Matching Networks 2

 

Bowick Chapter 4 pp 63-72

 

Quiz 4

5

9/18/2020

2

Exam 01 Review

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

9/23/2020

1

Exam 01

 

 

 

 

6

9/25/2020

2

Amplifiers

 

Beasley Chapter 4-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

9/30/2020

1

Oscillators

 

Beasley Chapter 4-2

 

Quiz 5

7

10/2/2020

2

Amplitude Modulation

 

Beasley  Chapter 2-1 through 2-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

10/7/2020

1

AM Modulation Circuits

 

Beasley  Chapter 5-1 through 5-3

 

Quiz 6

8

10/9/2020

2

SSB and DSB Systems

 

Beasley  Chapter 2-1 through 2-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

10/14/2020

1

AM Demodulation

 

Beasley Chapter 6-5

 

Quiz 7

9

10/16/2020

2

Phase and Frequency Modulation

 

Beasley Chapter 3-1 through 3-4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

10/21/2020

1

FM Modulation Circuits

 

Beasley Chapter 3-1 through 3-4

 

Quiz 8

10

10/23/2020

2

FM Demodulation

 

Beasley Chapter 6-5 183-189

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

10/28/2020

1

Exam 02 Review

 

 

 

Quiz 9

11

10/30/2020

2

Exam 02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

11/4/2020

1

Noise and Signal to Noise Ratio

 

Beasley Chapter 1-4 through 1-6

 

 

12

11/6/2020

2

Noise Figure and Noise Temperature

 

Beasley Chapter 1-4 through 1-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

11/11/2020

1

Receiver Architectures TRF

 

Beasley 6-1 through 6-3

 

Quiz 10

13

11/13/2020

2

Receiver Architectures SuperHet

 

Beasley 6-1 through 6-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

11/18/2020

1

Receiver Image and IF

 

Beasley 6-1 through 6-3

 

Quiz 11

14

11/20/2020

2

Digital Communications Techniques

 

Beasley 7-1 through 7-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

11/25/2020

1

No Class

 

 

 

 

15

11/27/2020

2

No Class