Digital Communications

This course provides attendees with a solid and intuitive understanding of the latest digital communication technologies for both wireless and wireline systems. The course covers both the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques and the physical layer modulation schemes which are facilitating the vast improvements in spectral efficiency being implemented in 3rd and 4th generation wireless systems. Current and future wireless standards shall be used as case studies to illustrate these techniques.

Content

The course will include:

DSP theory review
Single carrier modulation
Pulse shaping and matched filtering
Intersymbol interference
Propagation channels
Equalisation
Spread spectrum techniques
OFDM
Synchronisation
Multi-antenna techniques

Audience

The course is suitable for all engineering, marketing and technical management staff. The course delivers a sound grounding in digital communications theory and practice. Previous attendees to our courses have come from a wide range of industries and backgrounds such as professional audio and acoustics, digital communications, ASIC and analog electronics, and even mechanical engineering. This diversity also leads to a learning environment which helps strengthen each attendee’s understanding of the fundamentals through interaction and cross-fertilization of ideas and applications.

Event Aim

To educate participants in the theory and application of the latest digital communication schemes and the associated DSP techniques.

On successful completion of the course, attendees will be able to:

Understand the fundamental principles of digital communications
Understand how DSP is enabling advanced communication techniques
Design single and multi-carrier modulators and demodulators
Understand how propagation channels affect signals
Use equalisers to compensate for channel effects
Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different modulation schemes
Have an awareness of how synchronisation works
Appreciate how multi-antenna techniques can improve spectral efficiency

Presentation

Advanced digital communications and the associated DSP techniques are often seen as an esoteric and very mathematical subject. In this course, the necessary mathematical theory is presented on a “need to know basis” and in an intuitive style using both simulations and DSP demonstrations. This presentation style and ethos has been presented with considerable success to many companies, both small and large, in both Europe and the USA.

The course format is: 50% Lectures | 40% DSP software hands-on simulation | 10% Tutorial Discussion

Laboratory Sessions: Professional design software will be used for the laboratory sessions. This advanced software provides comprehensive state of the art communications and DSP simulation functionality.

Course Materials: All attendees will receive electronic and printed versions of the teaching materials. A DVD containing all the simulation models used during the course will also be distributed. The notes provided form a superset of the materials presented on the course and will allow further in depth study after the course.

Pre-requisites

This course has been carefully designed to present the complex mathematical theory often associated with DSP in an intuitive and straightforward style to a wide audience of scientists, engineers, project managers and even marketing staff. The following prior experience is also essential: Electrical engineering principles and Bachelor level mathematics.

Digital Communications Syllabus (46.2 kB)

Event Date

on request - Derag Hotel Prinzessin Elisabeth in Munich, Germany www.deraghotels.de

Instructor: Prof. Bob Stewart and team

Prof. Bob Stewart and team Professor Bob Stewart and his team of experienced design engineers from Steepest Ascent of have successfully presented in Europe, United States and Asia. Prof Bob Stewart has extensive experience presenting industry DSP courses in the USA and Europe. He is currently a faculty member of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to joining the University of Strathclyde, Prof Stewart was a visiting professor in Dept of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1990, and a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California in 1986/7. Since 1997 he has been a parttime visiting professor at UCLA.

Prices

1.850,00 € regular fee
1.670,00 € early registration
1.570,00 € per participant of two from the same company
1.480,00 € per participant of three or more from the same company
1.020,00 € University Rate (Please enclose evidence.)

All prices exclude German VAT

Provider

Steepest Ascent

Steepest Ascent has a long history in providing both Public and On-Site courses within the UK, USA and Europe. Through a number of European and US partners Steepest Ascent has delivered a wide range of detailed technical courses to some of the worlds top engineering and academic institutions.

www.steepestascent.com
Contact: Amreet Bhumbra
Phone: +44 141 552 8855
Email: info@steepestascent.com
Ladywell, 94 Duke Street | Glasgow, G4 0UW | United Kingdom

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