ELEC 432: Digital Radio System Design


The Virtual Textbook for ELEC 432 consists of a collection of class notes, web pages, technical papers, etc. This first page is the Table of Contents, organized as an outline representing the structure of the material as presented in class. Each link from this page leads to the class notes (if any) and a list of links to additional documents.


1. Background
1.1. Applications
1.2. 241 Review
2. Environment
2.1. Regulations
Regulatory Agencies
Spectrum Allocation
Part 15
Part 97
3. The Physics and Math of Radio
3.1. Propagation
Path Loss (Attenuation)
The Ionosphere
Multipath
Selective Fading
Doppler
Dispersion
3.2. Noise
Atmospheric
Circuit
3.3. Interference
External (QRM)
Internal (spurii, imd, ...)
3.4. The Big Picture
4. A Brief History of Modulation
4.1. Modulation Methods
OOK
AM
SSB
FM
PSK (including BPSK and QPSK)
ASK
QAM
4.2. The Mathematics of Modulation
4.3. modulation performance
4.4. access strategies
tdma, fdma, cdma, ...
5. Implementation: Radio Architectures
5.1. Classic
Crystal Set
TRF
5.2. Modern
Direct Conversion
Superhetrodyne
Image Reject
6. Implementation: Digital Architectures
6.1. Direct Sampling
6.2. Bandpass Sampling
6.3. DDC
6.4. Zero-IF
6.5. Low-IF
7. Realization: System Components
7.1. Antennas
7.2. Modulators
7.3. Demodulators
AM, FM, SSB, PSK
7.4. Decoders
7.5. Amplifiers
7.6. AGC
7.7. Frequency Sources
7.8. Mixers
7.9. Filters
7.10. Synchronization
PLL
Costas Loop
8. Realization: Digital Hardware
8.1. A/D Converters
8.2. D/A Converters
8.3. DDS
8.4. PLL
8.5. DDC
9. Realization: DSP: Digital Algorithms
9.1. Filters
FIR
IIR
Filter Design
9.2. NCO
10. Algorithms: DSP
10.1. multirate processing
10.2. the FFT
10.3. FFT processing
11. Implementation: Hardware and Software