ECE 412 - Software Defined Radio
- Credit Hours: 3R-3L-4C
- Term Available: -
- Graduate Studies Eligible: No
- Prerequisites: ECE 380 and ECE 310 or consent of instructor
- Corequisites: None
A software-defined radio (SDR) is characterized by its flexibility: Simply modifying software can completely change the radio’s functionality. This course addresses many of the choices an SDR designer must make to build a complete digital radio. Topics could include: modeling corruption, (de)modulation, AGC, filtering, bits to symbols, carrier and timing recovery, pulse shaping, equalization, coding, noise figure for the RF front end, and clock-jitter of the A/D. In the integral laboratory students will use LabVIEW to create a complete digital radio using the NI USRP 2920 platform.