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ELC 214 Communication Systems I
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COURSE TITLE: ELC-214 Communication Systems I
COURSE CREDIT: 4 Credits
COREQUISITE: ELC-204, Electronics II
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Communication Systems I emphasizes the application of
electronic communication theory to practical systems. This first
course of a two-course sequence covers AM and FM systems,
television, and telephony. Digital and data communication will be
introduced, and continued in Communication Systems II.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: 1. To balance enough detail with practical skills to enable the
student to do useful work in the field.
2. To consider the elements common to all electronic
communication systems, a transmitter, a receiver, and a
communications channel, and to investigate the various ways of
implementing each of these three basic elements.
TEXT: 1. Comprehensive Electronic Communication, Roy Blake, West
Publishing Company, 1997.
2. Laboratory Manual for above text.
SYLLABUS: 1. Introduction: Modulation, multiplexing, bandwidth, frequency
bands, time and frequency domains, noise, test equipment.
2. Radio-Frequency Circuits: High-frequency effects, RF
amplifiers, multipliers, oscillators, mixers, and synthesizers.
3. Amplitude Modulation: Time and frequency domains, RMS and
peak voltages and currents, quadrature.
4. AM Transmitters: Spectral purity, power output, efficiency,
modulation, stages, output impedance matching, AM citizens’ band,
AM stereo.
5. AM Receivers: Types, characteristics, variations, transceivers,
troubleshooting.
6. Suppressed-Carrier AM Systems: Single-sideband transmitters
and receivers.
7. Angle Modulation: Frequency and phase modulation, FM and
FM stereo.
8. FM Equipment: Transmitters, receivers and transceivers.
9. Television: Video and sound signals, broadcasting and
receiving, test equipment and troubleshooting, cable and high-
definition TV.
10 Telephone Systems: Switched networks, frequency-division
multiplexing
11. Digital Communications: Pulse modulation, coding and
decoding, digital switching, digital video transmission.
12. Data Transmission: Data coding, error detection and correction,
data compression.
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