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Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Modulated Signals

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 455-0342/01
Abbreviation MS
Course title Modulated Signals
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Measurement and Control
Course coordinator Ing. Zdeněk Macháček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1.Introduction: Modulated Signals and the Bandpass Signaling, the classification and the content of the course. Coherence of the theme to the courses from bachelor's study.
2.Mathematical representation of the bandpass waveforms - modulated signals. Basic definitions. Complex envelope representation.
3.Typical amplitude modulations. Mathematical formulas. Graphical characteristics of amplitude modulated signal in time and in frequency domain AM, DSB-SC, SSB-AM.
4.Typical phase and frequency modulations, QM modulation. Mathematical formulas. Graphical characteristics of phase and frequency modulated signal in time and in frequency domain PM, FM, QM.
5.Bandpass signal filtering. Equivalent baseband filters. Distortionless transmission. Transfer characteristics of a distortionless bandpass channel. The group delay and the phase delay.
6.Bandpass dimensionality theorem. The sampling theorem for the bandpass waveform. Bandpass dimensionality theorem for nonuniformly spaced time samples of the waveform. Standard modulations.
7.Spectrum of bandpass signals. PSD of standard bandpass signals. SHV. Evaluation of power. Autocorrelation function of modulated signal.
8.Components of of bandpass systems I.
9.Components of of bandpass systems II.
10.Digital signal processing. DSP parameters, functions, peripheries, programming.
11.Basic digital modulations basic frequency spectrum. Impulse and digital signal processing. Impulse amplitude modulation PAM. Impulse code modulation PCM.
12.Principes and types of A/D converters, D/A converters.
13.Digital bandpass modulation. Constelations. Principes and characteristics. Modulations OOK, FSK, PSK, QAM.
14.Summarize of Modulated signals

Laboratories:
1.The introductory laboratory lecture. The project of the laboratory communication system. The assignment of the laboratory tasks.
2.Matematical representation of a bandpass signal. The model verification by the measurement of signal parameters.
3.Modelating and measuring of amplitude modulated signal AM, DSB-SC, SSB-AM.
4.Modelating and measuring of phase and frequency modulated signal PM, FM, QM.
5.Bandpass signal filtering. Equivalent baseband filters. Measurement of the filtered signal parameters. Distortionless transmission. Amplifiers. Measurement of an amplifier fequency response. Measurement of group delay and the phase delay of a bandpass signal.
6.The sampling theorem. The sampling theorem for the bandpass waveform. Measurement and simulation.
7.Computation and modelling SHV, power, autocorrelation function of modulated signals and complex envelope.
8.Presentation of Presentation of Laboratory work No.2.
9.Computation and modelling of Components of bandpass systems I
10.Computation and modelling of Components of bandpass systems II
11.Digital signal processing by DSP, Peripheries for Digital signal processing by DSP
12.Digital signal processing by DSP, Programming and examples of mathematical formulas developed by DSP
13.Presentation of Laboratory work No.2.
14.Final Test.

Literature

Couch L.W.II: Modern Communication Systems. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1994.
Couch L.W.II: Digital and Analog Communication Systems. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, ISBN 0-13-089630-6, 2002.
Chen Chi-Tsong: System and Signal Analysis. Saunders College Publishing, New York 1994.

Advised literature

Nevřiva,P, Macháček Zdeněk.:Modulated signals. Sylabs at WWW pages of department and at server D400,2006-2008