Course Catalog 2009-2010 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Markku Renfors

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

5 cr: exam and small project/homework solutions 6 or 7 cr: more extensive project/laboratory exercises/literature study
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

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.

Content

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 and flexible spectrum use, software defined radio and cognitive 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 of 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 of key performance characteristics of main frequency synthesis methods; - Direct digital synthesis.
6.	TRANSMITTERS: - Basic transmitter structures; - Co-existence of transmitters and receivers, impact of duplexing methods; - Effects of power amplifier nonlinearities and linearization techniques.

Evaluation criteria for the course

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

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides	Receiver Architectures and Signal Processing	Markku Renfors et al.					English
Other literature	Book chapters and scientific articles as supplementary material.	several authors					English
Other online content	Intercative www-based leaning materials.	Mikko Valkama, Markku Renfors, et al.					English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

Additional information

The course is lectured every second year. Not lectured during term 2009-10. Course www-page: http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/TLT-5806

Last modified	06.05.2009
Modifier	Markku Renfors