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2015-2016 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECE 471 - Communication Theory

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Pre-reqs: ECE 321 and 384
Probability theory,signals and linear networks, Fourier transforms, random processes and noise are reviewed.Analog communications including amplitude and frequency modulation with and without noise are studied. Digital communications including baseband pulse modulation, quantization, sampling theory,digital pulse shaping, matched filter, Nyquist criterion and error rates due to noise are covered.
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