Brief overview of the hardware and software tools. Learning to use the hardware and software tools by generating a sine wave. Digital filters. The FFT and power spectrum estimation. Amplitude modulation. Double-sideband suppressed-carrier amplitude modulation and coherent detection. Single-sideband modulation and frequency translation. Frequency modulation. Psuedo-random binary sequences and data scramblers. Introduction to the RS-232C protocol and a bit-error rate tester. Digital data transmission by baseband pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). Fundamentals of quadrature amplitude modulation. QAM receiver I: general description of complete receiver block diagram and details of the symbol clock recovery and other front-end subsystems. QAM receiver II: the passband adaptive equalizer and carrier recovery system. Echo cancellation for full-duplex modems. Suggestions for additional experiments. Communicating between the PC and EVM. Generating Gaussian random numbers. A TTL/RS-232C interface for serial port 1.
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