SME
College · Engineering
Communication Systems
4 topics
Electrical
Before this course
Topics
AM and FM
Main lesson
FM bandwidth by Carson’s rule
Use this for “Broadcast FM swings 75 kHz with a 15 kHz tone. Find β and the bandwidth.”
Modulation index from the envelope
Use this for “An AM envelope peaks at 1.5 V and dips to 0.5 V. Find the modulation index.”
Superheterodyne LO and image
Use this for “A radio with a 455 kHz IF is tuned to 1000 kHz. Find the LO and image frequencies.”
Digital modulation
Noise
Information theory basics
Main lesson
Shannon capacity
Use this for “A 3 kHz phone line has a 30 dB signal-to-noise ratio. Find its Shannon capacity.”
Average code length
Use this for “Codewords of 1, 2, 3 and 3 bits are sent with probabilities 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/8. Find the average length.”
Binary symmetric channel capacity
Use this for “A binary symmetric channel flips each bit with probability 0.1. Find its capacity.”
Block code rate and correction
Use this for “The (7, 4) Hamming code has minimum distance 3. Find its rate and the errors it corrects and detects.”
Course test
See what you know: 10 questions on this course
New questions each time. Pass to mark it complete.