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Eric2 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Beckwith Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 5:26 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Master's Thesis Defense Hey folks, just wanted to let everyone know that my digital comm/SDR project is nearly complete! Thanks for all the help along the way. Master's Thesis Defense A MATLAB AND SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO APPROACH TO TEACHING DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS Jonathan A. Beckwith Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:00PM-3:00PM 301 Morse Hall Increasing complexity of communication protocols, especially modulations, requires expensive signal generation and demodulation equipment for meaningful lab experiences in communication engineering courses. Pure software simulation can simulate most real-world modulations and impairments, but it still lacks the .feel. of real hardware and channel impairments. Software radio, which uses hardware for analog and software for baseband processing of the signal, is attracting lots of attention in commercial as well as military circles. Using a software radio platform, one can achieve control of the simulation with real hardware, while maintaining flexibility for many environments. To this end, a series of digital communication lab exercises is presented which is based on the principles in software radio and uses an open Matlab code suite and a commercial RF front end, the FlexRadio Systems SDR-1000 transceiver. The lab exercises include realistic implementations of synchronization sections as well as modulation and demodulation subsystems. The flexibility of the SDR allows for not only labs for current EE 757 and EE 758 classes, but also future ones, which have different modulation requirements. As the system has not yet been implemented, a complete evaluation of its effectiveness has yet to be completed. Only the students using it can provide a complete assessment and evaluation of the SDR Teaching System. This will be done in the semester following its completion. Dr. M. Carter, Thesis Advisor Dr. Thomas Miller Dr. Jianqiu Zhang -- ***************************************** Jon Beckwith -KB1KBB- B.S.E.E. UNH InterOperability Lab R&D Fast & Gigabit Ethernet Consortiums 121 Technology Drive, Suite 2 Durham, NH 03824-3525 (603) 862-4534 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
