Description
The course Modem Technology deals with the fundamentals and applications of shift keyed signals and modems.
Learning objectives
- Learning physical basic principles
Topics
The course covers the following topics:
- Amplitude shift keying (ASK)
- Frequency shift keying (FSK)
- 2-phase shift keying (2PSK)
- 4-phase shift keying (4PSK)
- Difference phase coding
- Shift keyed signals in the time domain
- Shift keyed signals in the frequency domain
- Estimation of the bandwidth
- Modulation rate / data rate
- SNR & bandwidth
- Hardware of the modulators
- Hardware of the demodulators
- Carrier recovery & synchronisation of the demodulators
- Error correction
- Error detection
- Operational modes, simplex half duplex, full duplex
- NRZ line code
- Fault simulation