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Course Name Software Defined Radio
Course Code 25DT653
Program M.Tech. in Defence Technology
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit Contents Contact Hrs.
1. SDR introduction, major standards, SDR architecture, SDR enablers, advantage / disadvantages, Applications. 8
2. Waveform platform bifurcation, red – black separation, digital modulation- advanced linear and non-linear bandwidth efficient modulations. Bandwidth and power efficiency, peak to average power, error vector magnitude and error probability. 8
3. SDR Hardware, super-heterodyne architecture, homodyne architecture, advantages & disadvantages, Software for SDR, Processing architecture for SDR. 8
4. RF channels, receiver channel equalization, multiple access techniques Frequency, time and code division techniques as well as carrier sensing, Wireless sensor networks and beam steering in azimuth and elevation, receiver analogue signal processing, receiver digital signal processing.. 8
5. Source and channel coding (Source and channel coding, sampling, entropy, data compression, voice coding, block and convolution coding, turbo coding, space-time coding and trellis coding). 7
6. Case studies in software radio design, Introduction and a Historical perspective, AI based SDR 6

 
Total 45

Objectives and Outcomes

 Course Objectives:

The course is intended to provide understanding of the fundamental of software defined radios, different aspects of SDRs, practical scenarios along with knowledge of different SDR hardware and software.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

  • Understand the concept, application of SDRs.
  • Understand of analog RF components as front end block in implementation of SDR.
  • Gain knowledge of digital hardware architectures and its development techniques.
  • Gain knowledge of software development for embedded wireless systems.

Text Books / References

References / Suggested Books:

  1. “Software Radio, (A modern approach to radio engineering)”, by Jeffery H.Reed Publisher : PHI PTR.
  2. “RF and Digital Signal Processing for Software Defined Radio”, by John J. Rouphael. Publisher : Elsevier.
  3. “Digital Techniques in Frequency Synthesis”, by B.G.Golderg. Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
  4. “Multirate Signal Processing”, by N.J.Fliege. Publisher: John Wiley and sons.
  5. Literature / books suggested by respective course Lecturers.

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