Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Course on Software Defined Radio

EE 420 (Design in Communications) has been completely revamped since Spring 2013. The course focuses on providing students with hands-on experience in design and implementation of modern digital communication systems using software-defined radio (SDR) technology.

Course will be heavily lab oriented. In addition to laboratory modules, a final course project will synthesize topics covered in class.

Course topics include software-defined radio architectures and implementations, digital signaling and data transmission analysis in noise, digital receiver structures (matched filtering, correlation), multicarrier communication techniques, radio frequency spectrum sensing and identification (energy detection, matched filtering), and fundamentals of radio resource management.

If this is the first time you've heard about SDR, take a look here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/how-software-defined-radio-could-revolutionize-wireless/

We will be using the Ettus Research USRP N210 platform together with the XCVR2450 daughterboard in the lab modules:
https://www.ettus.com/product/details/UN210-KIT
https://www.ettus.com/product/details/XCVR2450

And here is the course textbook:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1608075257

We have 14 complete hardware kits, and so can only take 14 students working in groups of two. If you are interested, please sign up now. This will be an exciting class!

Class will be offered MW 09:30 - 10:50 and T 09:30-10:20 in EEB 026.