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Announcements:
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Assignment 8 has been posted (see
below).
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Lab guidelines
have been posted. Please download and read carefully the generic guide and
the guide of Lab 1. 1st lab session is on Jan. 24.
New
classrooms for lectures:
Wednesday: MRN 021
Friday: MNO E217
First class: Jan. 10 (Wed.), 16:00.
Download and print the lecture slides
before attending the class. Important
announcements will be made – do not miss it.
See Lecture 1 (below) for more info.
No tutorial first week. No Labs first
two weeks.
See Lecture 1 below for extra info.
You are strongly advised to download
all course material to your device as soon as it becomes available and to
make a backup of it. Do not expect it to be available online 24/7 as servers
and networks are not 100% reliable; outages do happen.
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Course
information:
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see
Lecture 1
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Office hours:
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Wed. 5;30 -7pm. You are encouraged to ask
questions during lectures (additionally, time will be allocated at the end of
each lecture).
Any Lab, Tutorial or assignment-related
questions – to the respective TA.
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Lectures:
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
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Assignments:
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Assignments: 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8
“Remember that very little is gained by reading the solution to a
problem before seriously attempting to solve it.” W. Briggs, Ants, Bikes
and Clocks: Problem Solving for Undergraduates, 2005.
Please include in your solutions all the intermediate
results and their numerical values (if applicable). Detailed solutions with explanations are required, not just the
final answers; all symbols used must
be defined, including units used (e.g. f = frequency [Hz]). Missing
explanations, symbol definitions/units will be penalized. Your answers should
demonstrate the full extent of your knowledge and the latter will determine
your marks.
*Plagiarism: “cut-and-paste” from a student to a student, other forms of
“borrowing” the material for the assignments from anywhere, including
Internet and other sources of solutions, and presenting it as your own work.
It is absolutely unacceptable and
will be penalized. Each student is
expected to submit his own solutions. If two (or more) identical or almost
identical sets of solutions are found, each student involved receives 0
(zero) for that particular assignment. If this happens twice, the students involved
receive 0 (zero) for the entire assignment component of the course in the
marking scheme and the case will be send to the Dean’s office for further
investigation.
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Assignment
marks:
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Lab Info:
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Lab
guides: General guidelines, Lab 1, 2, 3, 4
Please
note that the preparation part has to be done before coming to the lab!
Lab
equipment manuals:
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Spectrum analyzer HMS3010: brief summary and full manual
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Oscilloscope HMO722: brief summary and full manual
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Function generator Agilent 33500: brief summary and full manual
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Krohn-Hite 3384 filter
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Krohn-Hite 3200 filter
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PCM Encoder 9444
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PCM Decoder 9445
Additional
info:
Filters:
§ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterworth_filter,
§ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_filter
§ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_filter
Spectrum Analyzers (by
Agilent Technologies) – a good description if you wish to know how modern
spectrum analyzers work. While the whole document is lengthy, first 2
chapters give a good introduction.
Evaluating Oscilloscope Fundamentals (by Agilent
Technologies)
Oscilloscope Fundamentals
(by Agilent Technologies)
Useful links:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkC9As4yYvU&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUIgAu3QQWQ
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Additional material:
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Laboratories:
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Tutorial:
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See Lecture 1
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Teaching
Assistants:
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Milad
Dabiri (tutorials, assignments), mdabi038@uottawa.ca , office hours: Fri.
5:30-6:30pm (CBY B508)
Bo Xu (Labs), bxu040@uottawa.ca
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Course
Textbook:
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L.W.
Couch II, Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 8th Edition, Prentice
Hall, 2013. (available at the library and at Amazon.com)
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Additional
texts:
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A.V. Oppenheim, A.S. Willsky, Signals and Systems,
Prentice Hall, 1997.
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H.P. Hsu, Analog and Digital Communications, McGraw
Hill, 1993 (or 2002).
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J.G. Proakis, M.Salehi, Fundamentals of Communications
Systems, Prentice Hall, 2005.
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B.P.Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication
Systems, Oxford University Press, 1998.
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A.B. Carlson, P.B. Crilly, J.C. Rutledge, Communication
Systems, McGraw Hill, 2002.
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R.E. Ziemer, W.H. Tranter, Principles of Communications,
Wiley, New York, 2009.
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Midterm Exam:
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See
Lecture 1 for schedule.
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The midterm will cover all the topics discussed in the class before the
midterm, with special emphasis on the topics included in the assignments,
labs and tutorials.
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Closed-book examination; 1 page (letter-size, single-sided) of reference
material is allowed.
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No students’ questions will be answered by the instructor or the proctors
during the exam.
* Your
answers have to demonstrate the full extent of your knowledge.
* Write legibly, communicate efficiently (that is, understandable to others).
This is not less important than the technical accuracy of your answers.
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Please include in your solutions all the
intermediate results and their numerical values (if applicable). Detailed solutions with explanations are
required, not just the final answers/equations; all symbols used must be defined, including units used (e.g. f =
frequency [Hz]). Missing explanations, symbol definitions/units will be
penalized. Your
answers should demonstrate the full extent of your knowledge and the latter
will determine your marks.
Criteria
for marking are here.
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Final Exam:
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See
the university web site for the schedule.
Same
rules as for the midterm (above), except:
* 3h. The final exam will cover all the
topics discussed in the class (including lectures, tutorials, labs,
assignments) with special emphasis on the material included in the
assignments, tutorials and the labs.
* 2 pages (letter-size, single-sided) of
reference material are allowed
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