Course Duration

3 Days

Overview

This course provides attendees with a solid and intuitive understanding of the latest digital communication technologies for both wireless and wireline systems. The course covers both the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques and the physical layer modulation schemes which are facilitating the vast improvements in spectral efficiency being implemented in 3rd and 4th generation wireless systems. Current and future wireless standards shall be used as case studies to illustrate these techniques.

The course will include:

Course Aim

To educate participants in the theory and application of the latest digital communication schemes and the associated DSP techniques.

Course Syllabus

Public Course Schedule†

On-Site Delivery

This course is available for On-Site delivery and can be fully tailored to meet the requirements of participants.

Audience

The course is suitable for all engineering, marketing and technical management staff. The course delivers a sound grounding in digital communications theory and practice. Previous attendees to our courses have come from a wide range of industries and backgrounds such as professional audio and acoustics, digital communications, ASIC and analog electronics, and even mechanical engineering. This diversity also leads to a learning environment which helps strengthen each attendee's understanding of the fundamentals through interaction and cross-fertilization of ideas and applications.

Achievable Skills

On successful completion of the course, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental principles of digital communications
• Understand how DSP is enabling advanced communication techniques
• Design single and multi-carrier modulators and demodulators
• Understand how propagation channels affect signals
• Use equalisers to compensate for channel effects
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different modulation schemes
• Have an awareness of how synchronisation works
• Appreciate how multi-antenna techniques can improve spectral efficiency

Pre-requisites

This course has been carefully designed to present the complex mathematical theory often associated with DSP in an intuitive and straightforward style to a wide audience of scientists, engineers, project managers and even marketing staff. The following prior experience is also essential:

• Electrical engineering principles
• Bachelor level mathematics

Course Presentation

Advanced digital communications and the associated DSP techniques are often seen as an esoteric and very mathematical subject. In this course, the necessary mathematical theory is presented on a "need to know basis" and in an intuitive style using both simulations and DSP demonstrations. This presentation style and ethos has been presented with considerable success to many companies, both small and large, in both Europe and the USA.

The course format is:

• 50% Lectures
• 40% DSP software hands-on simulation
• 10% Tutorial Discussion

Laboratory Sessions

Professional design software will be used for the laboratory sessions. This advanced software provides comprehensive state of the art communications and DSP simulation functionality.

Course Materials

All attendees will receive electronic and printed versions of the teaching materials. A DVD containing all the simulation models used during the course will also be distributed.

The notes provided form a superset of the materials presented on the course and will allow further in depth study after the course.

Further Information

To find out further information related to this or any other Steepest Ascent course please submit an on-line enquiry here.

†Steepest Ascent Ltd. reserves the right to cancel or modify courses in this schedule at short notice and will not accept liability for any costs or losses incurred by participants or their organisations as a result of these changes or cancelations. Prices quoted here do not include VAT or any applicable taxes. Steepest Ascent Ltd. reserve the right to change prices without any prior notice.