MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ECE 321 - PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
SLIDES/CLASS PRESENTATIONS
WEEK  1
Lectures
(a) Introduction to Communication Systems
(b) Measurements in Decibels

Practical Session:
(a) Signal Strength in GSM and WiFI
WEEK  2
(a)  Principles of Communications - Amplitude Modulation/Demodulation
WEEK  3
Lecture
(a) Frequency Modulation
(b) Introduction to Telephony
(c) Introduction to Switching in Telecommunication Systems
Practical Session
Analogue Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX)
  WEEK 4
Lectures
(a) AM Modulation Index & Power in AM systems
(b) Single Sideband AM Modulation
(c) Vestigial Sideband Modulation
(d) Phase Modulation (PM)
(d) FM Signal Generation & Transmission
Labs/Computer Sessions
 (a) Double Sideband Modulation using Matlab
(b) Using Matlab to analyse Signals in Time and Frequency Domains
WEEK 4
Lectures
(a) Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)
(b) FM Transmission
(c) Introduction to Television
  WEEK 5
Lectures
(a) Signal Digitization: Sampling, Quantization & Binary Coding
Labs
(a) Introduction to MATLAB
(b) Basic MATLAB Graphs
WEEK  6
Lecture
(a) Introduction to Fourier Series
(b) Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)
(c) Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
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