Course
Description
ECE 359 - Communications I
Semester: Fall 2000
Course Instructor: Christoforos Hadjicostis
TA: Vikas Kawadia
Announcements :
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- Homework 1 posted. Look in the homework section below on the same page.
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- Help
on using Newsgroups. Please read this if you do not know how to use
newsgroups. This will be the place for future announcements. Our newsgroup
is uiuc.class.ece359.
Credit: 3 hours or 3/4 unit
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Topics:
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- Representation of Signals and Systems (5 lectures)
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- Analog Modulation Schemes (5 lectures)
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- Random Processes (8 lectures)
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- Noise in Analog Modulation (3 lectures)
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- Digital Communications (6 lectures)
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Prerequisites by Topic:
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- Fundamental circuit analysis
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- Fourier and Laplace transform
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- Probability theory (ECE 313)
Required Text: B.P. Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication
Systems, Oxford University Press, 1998 (3rd edition).
Recommended
Text : Simon Haykin, Communication Systems, John Wiley &
Sons, 1994 (3rd edition).
ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared
this course description:
Engineering Science: 2 credits or 67% Engineering Design: 1 credit
or 33%
Contacts:
Christoforos Hadjicostis / 265-8259 / 148 C&SRL / chadjic@control.csl.uiuc.edu
URL:black.csl.uiuc.edu/~chadjic/
Vikas Kawadia / 333-3202 / 139 C&SRL / kawadia@ews.uiuc.edu
Course Time & Place:
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30-2:50 pm, 161 Everitt Lab
Office Hours:
Hadjicostis: Tuesdays, 3-5pm, Room 368 Everitt
Vikas Kawadia: Wednesdays, 3pm-5pm | Fridays 12am - 1:50pm, Room 330N Everitt
Grading:
Homework (10 %), Two Midterms (25 % each), Final Exam (40 %)
Exam Dates:
Exam 1: Thursday, Sep. 28, 1:30-2:50 pm, room
TBA
Exam 2: Thursday, Nov. 9, 1:30-2:50 pm,
room TBA
Final: Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1:30-4:30 pm, room 161 Everitt
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