EE-320: Analog and Digital Communication

Course Outline
EE-320 Analog and Digital Communication
BSEE 2010-2014
Credit Hours: 3+1

Instructor:
Waqas Ahmed
Room No C-204
Ext: 3206
Email: fac044@pieas.edu.pk
Contact Hours:
2-4pm Monday to Wednesday

Lecture 1-12: Introduction to Signals; Analysis and Transmission of signals; Analog

modulation; Amplitude modulation; SSB and VSB;
Lecture 13-24: Angle modulation; Narrow- and wide-band FM and PM; Frequency
division multiplexing; Pulse modulation, PAM and other forms of pulse modulation;
Time Division Multiplexing; comparison of TDM and FDM techniques;
Lecture 25-36: Digital modulation; Quantization of signals; Quantization errors;
Companding; bit and frame synchronization; PCM, DPCM, and Delta modulation;
Lecture 37-48: Types of Noise; Noise figure; Signal to noise ratio; Effective noise
temperature; Equivalent noise bandwidth; S/N of various modulation systems.

Recommended Texts:
1. Lathi B. P., Modern Analog and Digital Communications Systems, 3rd edition,
Oxford University Press, 1998.
2. Kennedy G., Electronic Communication Systems, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill, 1992.
3. Haykin S., Communication Systems, 4th edition, Wiley, 2000.
4. Couch L. W., Digital & Analog Communication Systems, 7th edition, Prentice Hall,
2007.
5. Proakis J. G. and Salehi M., Fundamentals of Communication Systems, Prentice
Hall, 2005.

Evaluation:
Sessionals, Quizzes, Assignments, Class behavior and Terminal Exam: 75
Lab: 25

Lab Instructor:
M. Afzal Chisti
Room No C-208, Academic Block
Ext: 3200

Lab Venue:
Data Communication lan
Room No C-207
Ext: 3204

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List of Experiments

1. Introduction to TIMS, PICO and TIMS pre-lab preparation tool

a. Modeling a simple equation on TIMS setup
2. Amplitude Modulation
a. Envelopes
b. Envelope Recovery
3. DSBSC generation and SSB generation
4. Product Demodulation
a. Synchronous
b. Asynchronous
5. Power Measurements
a. Single tone, two tone, SSB
6. Frequency Modulation (FM) - Analysis of the FM spectrum
a. FM Modulation using VCO
7. FM and the synchronous demodulator
a. FM demodulation using PLL
8. Line Coding
9. Signal Constellation: Amplitude Shift keying, Frequency Shift keying, Phase
Shift keying and QAM
10. PCM encoding and decoding
11. Eye Patterns and Noisy channel model
12. BER measurements in a noisy channel
a. BER Measurement of coherent BPSK signaling