Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Computer Systems), Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Computer Systems) / Bachelor of Business, Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Biomedical Sciences)/Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Computer Systems) and Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication and Network Engineering).

Aims & Objectives:

• Understand common terminology, concepts, equipment and techniques of signal processing for communications.
• Explain, justify, analyse and critically evaluate common signal processing concepts and methods.
• Analyse the performance of various modulation methods for analogue and digital transmission.
• Evaluate the effect of noise on signal reception.
• Assemble signal processing modules to implement communications systems.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures (36 hrs), Tutorials (12 hrs) and Practical Classes (15 hrs)

Assessment:

3 x Individual Tests, 5 x Laboratory Reports, Written Final Examination

Content:

• Analogue signals, spectral (fourier) analysis, bandwidth, ideal and real filters, transfer functions, amplitude and phase response, energy and power spectra.
• Analogue modulation and demodulation: amplitude,frequency, phase.
• Noise and its effects in analogue communication systems.
• Receivers.
• Commercial broadcasting: radio and television.
• Pulse modulation.
• Sampling theorem.
• Pulse amplitude modulation, time division and frequency division multiplexing, pulse code modulation.
• Digital methods: digital line codes, modulation and demodulation of ASK, PSK, FSK, DPSK, QAM, QPSK.
• Noise and its effects in digital communication systems, BER, analysis of digital modulation schemes.

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