ELEC 433

Architecture For Wireless Communications

Instructors: Evan Everett and Michael Wu

Rice University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Notes

• Course Syllabus
  
• Lab Report Expectations
  
• System Generator Tips
  
• System Generator User Guide
  
• Digital Comm App Notes
  
• Writing Reports in LaTeX
  
• Project Requirements and Ideas
  
• Project Report Guidlines
  

Week 1: Course Overview / Intro to System Generator

• Slides: Course Overview - Intro to System Generator Part 1 - Intro to System Generator Part 2
• Lecture Videos: Welcome / Intro to System Generator Part 1 - Intro to System Generator Part 2
• Assignment: Lab 1 Assignment - Lab 1 Files - DDS Example

Week 2: Modulation

• Slides: Modulation
• Lecture Video: Modulation
• Assignment: Lab 2 Assignment
• Helful links: Using BERTool with Simulink - MATLAB's qammod and modnorm functions.

Week 3: Filtering Part 1

• Slides: Filtering Part 1
• Lecture Video: Filtering Part 1
• Assignment: Lab 3 Assignment
• Example Models: Filter Demos

Week 4: Filtering Part 2

• Slides: Filtering Part 2
• Assignment: Lab 4 Assignment
• Circular buffer block: Circular buffer

Week 5: Running you Design in WARP

• Tutorial: Building a Sinusoid Generator with Warp
• Assignment: Lab 5 Assignment
• Files: DDS Model - Template XPS Project - DDS Controller C Code

Week 6: Frequency Conversion

• Slides: Up and Down Conversion
• Lecture Video: Up and Down Conversion
• Assignment: Lab 6 Assignment
• Files: Polyphase Interpolating Filters

Week 7: Carrier Frequency Offset Recovery

• Slides: CFO Recovery
• Assignment: Lab 7 Assignment

Week 8: Timing Synchronization Part 1

• Slides: Timing Synchronization Part 1
• Lecture Video: Timing Synchronization Part 1
• Assignment: Lab 8.1 Assignment

Week 9: Timing Synchronization Part 2

• Slides: Timing Synchronization Part 2
• Lecture Video: Timing Synchronization Part 2
• Assignment: Lab 8.2 Assignment
• Files: Template XPS Project (same as before) - Skeleton C Code

Week 10: Demodulation and BER Testing

• Slides: Demodulation and BER Testing
• Assignment: Lab 9 Assignment
• Files:
  mls.m (function for generating maximal length sequences)
  FIR64.slx (64-tap FIR filter)
  Template XPS Project (same as before)
  Skeleton C Code (same as before)
  

Demos

1. Frequency Response Demo (Great for verifying filter designs)
2. Subsytems Demo (Shows how to organize complex models into orderly subsytems)
3. To/From Workspace Demo (Illustrates how your Sygen model can interact with the Matlab Workspace)
4. ASR Demo (Adressable shift registers are using frequently in digital comm implementation)
5. Download all the demos at once here.