2006 Catalog Description

Bandpass series and parallell circuits, Noise in communication systems and circuits, Thermal(Johnson’s noise) , shot noise, partition noise, low frequency noise, high frequency noise, Generation and recombination  noise, Signal to noise ratio, noise figure and noise factor, Measurement of noise factor, Noise in passive circuits, Noise in cascaded amplifiers and circuits, Noise resistance , equivalent noise temperature, Amplifiers input-output relation, amplifier distortions (harmonic, intermodulation, cross modulation distortions), communication circuits, bandpass limiters, discriminator, mixers, phase locked loops(PLL’s) and applications, frequency multipliers and dividers, frequency up and down conversion, modulators and demodulators, oscillators, AM and angle modulation circuits, Pulse communication systems(PAM, PWM, PPM, Aand PCM) and their circuits,  Filters, Butterworth, Bessel, Chybycheff filters, low pass, band pass,  high pass, and band stop filters, LC filers, ceramic filters, crystal filters, mecanical filters,  Receivers and their components, hetrodyning, RF amplifier- local oscillator- mixer capacitances relations, tracking errors,  Image frequency, double spotting and spurious responses, automatic frequency and gain controls, Double super hetrodyne receivers. Power amplifiers  analysis and design for maximum collector current swing, use of transistor data sheet specifications (maximum collector current, maximum collector dissipation, and collector emmitter break down and saturation voltages) in the design, designing bias resistors circuits for maximum collector swing and stability, classes A, AB, B(push-pull), C amplifiers.

Prerequisites by Topics

1. EE312: Electronics 2
2. EE 321: Communications
3. EE 360: Digital design
4. EE 421: Communication2
5. IE 331: Probability and statistics

Textbooks

1. Leon W. Couch II, Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Printice Hall, Inc.,New Jersy, 2006.
2. Jack Smith, Modern Communication Circuits, Mcgraw-Hill, New York, 1997.
3. Donald L. Schilling and Charles Belove, Electronic Circuits Discrete and integrated, 3^rd edition, Mcgraw-Hill, New York ,1989.

References

1. Wai-Kai Chen, Passive, Active, and Digital Filters, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2005.
2. Analog Circuits and Devices by Wai-Kai Chen , 2003.
3. Modern Communication Systems by Ferrel Stremler (Author), Addison Wesley, Publishing Company (January 1998
4. Lawrence P. Huelsman, Basic Circuit Theory, 3^rd  edition, Printice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1998.
5. Electronic Communications Third Edition, by Dennis Roddy and John Coolen, Prentice-Hall, Inc.,1995.
6. Martin S. Roden, Analog and Digital Communication Systems, 2^nd  edition, Printice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1995.
7. Introduction to Communication Systems, Third Edition, by Ferrel G. Stremler, Addison Wesley, 1990.

Goals

1. To develop a student’s ability to understand the fundamentals of basic components in communication circuits.
2. To develop a student’s ability to understand the fundamentals of analysis and design of communication circuits.
3. To give the student a working knowledge in the basic communication circuits applications and to gain practical experience in dealing with them.

Prerequistes by Topics

1. Analog electronics circuits
2. Digital electronics circuits
3. Basic Communication Systems
4. Pulse Communication and modulation systems
5. Filters
6. Noise in coomunication systems
7. Propability and statistics

Topics

Bandpass series and parallell circuits,(1 week)

Power amplifiers  analysis and design for maximum collector current swing, use of transistor data sheet specifications (maximum collector current, maximum collector dissipation, and collector emmitter break down and saturation voltages) in the design, designing bias resistors circuits for maximum collector swing and stability, classes A, AB, B(push-pull), C amplifiers.(3 weeks)

Computer  Usage

Solving for and Plotting the Tracking error due to the tuned  circuits in the mixer,local oscillator and RF amplifier in the radio receiver.

Laboratory Projects

Major individual experiment that performs one or more of the important tasks in communication systems

Estimated ABET Content

Engineering science   :    80     %

Engineering design    :    20     %

Prepared by

Professor Khalid A. Alnabulsi

Date

09/09/2011