Welcome: Fall 2006

Welcome to the Fall 2006 offering of TELCOM 2210. This will be the last time this course will be called "Electronic Communications -2". Starting January 2007, the name of this course will be changed to "Physical Layer of Communications - 2". The first class for this course will be on August 31st, Thursday at 6.00 p.m. in room IS 411.

Review Session

The review session will be on Friday, April 21st at 4.00 p.m. in Room 403.

Problem 9.19 from the book

Please make the following assumptions. The signal power after amplification is 0 dBm.

Lecture 12 and Homework 7

Hi all. This is the penultimate class this semester and we will cover modulation (Chapter 14) in its entirety. Next Monday, Dr. Thompson will be delivering a lecture on SONET and multiplexing. The lecture notes for this class are here and the homework, due next Monday, is here.

Lecture 11: BER

We will continue this Friday from where we left off. This lecture talks about the Bit Error Rate and optimal receiver. Lecture notes are here. They are partial lecture notes. Please bring some paper and pen to class to take notes.

Lecture 10 and Homework 6

Today we will conclude analog transmission. We will consider A/D conversion and start with digital transmission. The lecture notes are here. The homework is here. Please don't forget that we have an extra class this Friday from 3.00 - 6.00 p.m.

Lecture 9: Analog Transmission Continued

Please find the lecture notes here and here.

Matlab

Luda has been kind enough to provide me this information about availability of Matlab through CSSD. The full version of Matlab is available to students from CSSD Software Licensing Services for $10 with a valid Pitt ID (see here). Software Licensing is located in Room 105 Bellefield Hall. Hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m.