Opinto-opas 2005-2006

TLT-5806 RECEIVER ARCHITECTURES AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 5-7 cr
RECEIVER ARCHITECTURES AND SIGNAL PROCESSING

Lecturers
Markku Renfors, Professor, TG108, markku.renfors@tut.fi
Mikko Valkama, Senior Researcher, TG114, mikko.e.valkama@tut.fi

Objectives
The goal is to understand the key RF-functionalities and related performance issues when designing the analog and digital signal processing blocks for communications receivers and transmitters. The course introduces also certain DSP algorithms that are interesting when the RF functionalities are increasingly desired to be implemented with digital signal processing.

Contents
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Receiver Architectures
- Basic architectures of communications receivers: superheterodyne, direct-conversion, low-IF.
- Effects of non-idealities in practical analog implementations: I/Q imbalance, nonlinearities, noise, phase noise, spurious responses. System calculation principles.
- The significance of RF specifications of mobile communication systems on the specs of the signal processing blocks.
- Flexible multistandard receiver structures; software defined radio concepts. 		      
2. Multirate DSP
- Principles of multirate signal processing and extensions to bandpass and complex (I/Q) cases.
- Review of efficient realization structures; polyphase structure, CIC filters.
- Continuous-time, discrete-time, and multirate signal processing in case of complex (I/Q) and bandpass signals.
- Sampling of bandpass signals and I/Q signals. Sampling and ADC requirements regarding resolution and sampling jitter.
- Efficient DSP algorithms for communications receivers. 		 Delta-sigma A/D-conversion principle.    
3. Synchronization
- Requirements and methods for carrier and symbol synchronization.
- Maximum Likelihood estimation theory in synchronization.
- All-digital synchronization principles.
- Principle of polynomial interpolation and its applications in communications signal processing. 		 - Efficient all-digital synchronization algorithms.
- Synchronization in CDMA- ja multicarrier systems.
- Cramer-Rao bound on the performance of synchronization algorithms.
- Realizations structures and design methods for polynomial interpolation. 		   
4. Adaptive Compensation Methods
- Use of statistical DSP for compensation certain non-idealities of the analog parts (I/Q imbalance, nonlinearities). 		 - More extensive analysis of the used statistical DSP methods and detailed signal models.    
5. Frequency Synthesis
- The principles and analysis key performance characteristics of main frequency synthesis methods. Direct digital synthesis.

Transmitters
- Basic transmitter structures.
- Co-existence of transmitters and receivers; impact of duplexing methods.
- Effects of power amplifier nonlinearities and linearization techniques. 		      

Requirements for completing the course
5 cr: Exam & small project work/homework solutions. 6 or 7 cr: more extesive project work and/or laboratory exercises.

Assessment criteria
The assessment is based on the exam, which is targeted to measuring the knowledge gained in the core contents.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Study material
    Type Name Author ISBN URL, edition, availablitity... Exam material Language
    Lecture slides Receiver Architectures and Signal Processing Markku Renfors et al.     Yes  English 
    Other online content Intercative www-based leaning materials. Mikko Valkama, Markku Renfors, et al.     Yes  English 
    Other literature Book chapters and scientific articles as supplementary material. several authors     No  English 

    Prerequisites
    Number Name Credits M/R
    SGN-2010 Digital Linear Filtering I 5 Recommendable
    TLT-5206 Communication Theory 5-7 Mandatory
    TLT-5400 Digital Transmission 7 Recommendable

    Other comments
    Course lectured every second year.

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.
  • The course is suitable for postgraduate studies.
  • Course will not be lectured in the academic year 2005-2006.

    • Correspondence of content
    83080 Receiver Architectures and Synchronization in Digital Communications

    Course homepage

    Last modified 06.03.2005
    Modified byMarkku Renfors