Spring Office Hours:
M 12:00-12:30pm, T 1:30-3:00pm and F 9:30-10:30am
Spring Cafe Hours:
F 12:00-2:00pm
This class emphasizes design tradeoffs in signal quality vs. implementation complexity in embedded software. In the lab, students design, implement, and test a voiceband transceiver. A voiceband transceiver reference design and simulation is available in LabVIEW.
Students implement transceiver subsystems in C on a Texas Instruments TMS320C6748 floating-point programmable digital signal processor. The C6000 family is used in DSL modems, wireless LAN modems, mobile wireless basestations, and video conferencing systems. Students test their implementations using rack equipment, Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio software, and National Instruments LabVIEW software. Lecture not only supports the laboratory material but also covers programmable digital signal processor architectures, analyzes modern A/D and D/A converter architectures, and introduces high-speed broadband communication systems.
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The password-protected Blackboard course site contains a mirror of this Web site, and also contains student grades and pre-lab quizzes.
The teaching assistants will be Mr. Chao Jia and Ms. Debarati Kundu. Lab sections will meet in ENS 252B at the following times: Mondays 6:30-9:30pm (Jia), Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm (Jia), Wednesdays 6:30-9:30pm (Kundu), and Fridays 1:00-4:00pm (Kundu). Beyond these lab hours, the TAs will hold office hours in ENS 137 as follows: Thursdays 2:30pm-5:30pm (Jia) and Thursdays 5:30pm-8:30pm (Kundu). Students work in teams of two in the lab. A maximum of 14 students are in each lab section.
In the graduate curriculum, this course may be applied to an MSEE degree provided that it is taken for letter grade and a grade of at least B- is received. Up to two undergraduate courses may be applied toward an MSEE degree, subject to the approval of the curriculum track academic advisor. Undergraduate courses no longer apply to the coursework requirements for a PhDEE degree.
Last updated 01/29/12.
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