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Communication Systems Projects with LabVIEW (Connexions)

Communication Systems Projects with LabVIEW

Instructor:Prof. Ed Doering
Institution:Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Courseware Link:http://cnx.org/content/col10610
Description:

Developed by Prof. Ed Doering, a professor in the ECE department at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN),  “Communications Systems Projects with LabVIEW” is a set of hands-on student projects for  undergraduate communications system classes or laboratories. It covers fundamental communications systems topics such as bit error rate (BER) versus Eb/No, coherent detection, baseband modulation, inter-symbol interference (ISI) / eye diagrams, and block coding.

The courseware is hosted on Connexions, a web-based open publishing resource, and is available for download now, ready-to-use by educators as assignments or lab exercises. Like other content available on Connexions, the project material is organized as modules, enabling educators flexibility to use as a set or build their own custom courseware, using modules from this set as components of their new content.

The modules make extensive use of screencasts -- videos captured directly from the computer screen with audio narration and a hallmark of this resource -- use a mixture of hand-drawn text, animations, and video of the LabVIEW tool in operation to provide a visually rich learning environment.

Contents

The courseware consists of ten student projects and 40 subVI specifications which are organized into a collection available here: http://cnx.org/content/col10610. The following sections list out the modules that make up the collection.

Simulation and Visualization of Fundamental Concepts

Channel Coding and Error Control

FSK Demodulation

Bandpass Communications Over the Speaker-Air-Microphone Channel

SubVI Specifications

General-Purpose Utilities
Baseband Modulation and Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM)

Bandpass Modulation

Demodulation and Bitstream Regeneration

Hamming Block Coding

Speaker - Air - Microphone (SAM) Channel

Caller ID Decoder

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Sam Shearman
Contributors