Radio communications simulation and design

Course title: Radio communications simulation and design

Code: FEIT10L024

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Passed: Fundamentals of Telecommunications, Taken course: Wireless channels

Course goals/Competences: Getting familiar with system design principles in telecommunications, getting familiar with the transmitter and receiver structures in radio communication systems (Simulation modeling of transmitters and receivers in contemporary radio communications systems).

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Receiver structures. Radio subsystem. Baseband subsystems. Noise non-linearity. Link budget and its impact over receiver design. Radio frequency subsystems: low-noise amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, frequency synthesizers, filters. Receiver properties: sensitivity and dynamic range, amplification, noise factor, dynamic bandwidth, inter-modulation, reciprocal mixing. Heterodyne receiver architecture. Interference. Interference control in microwave systems. Receiver synchronization. Feedback loops. Phase detectors. State-of-the-art receiver structures.

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