ECTS - Communication Electronics
Communication Electronics (EE410) Course Detail
Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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Communication Electronics | EE410 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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EE 313 and EE 316 |
Course Language | English |
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Course Type | Elective Courses |
Course Level | Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree |
Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Demonstration, Discussion, Experiment, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Problem Solving. |
Course Lecturer(s) |
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Course Objectives | To give an understand about circuits used to generate continuous wave and digital modulations. Understand the sensitivity, selectivity and dynamic range of a radio receiver. Understand the circuit design of Phase-Lock Loop (PLL), frequency synthesizer, Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA), Power Amplifier. Understand the fundamental design considerations of digital communication systems. |
Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Content | Communication systems overview. System blocks; transmitters and receivers, modulation and modulator circuits. Oscillators, filters and Phase Lock Loop (PLL) circuits, frequency synthesizer and amplifier design for communication systems of a broad range of frequencies. Project assignments on the design of communications circuits and/or subcircuits. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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1 | Introduction to Communication Electronics. Technology. LC circuits, Oscillators, Noise, Noise measurements. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
2 | Amplitude Modulation: Transmission. Circuits for AM generation, AM transmitter Systems, Transmitter Measurements. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
3 | Amplitude Modulation: Reception. AM detection, Superheterodyne receivers, Automatic Gain Control, AM Receiver Systems. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
4 | Single-Sideband (SSB) Communications. Sideband generation (Balanced Modulator), SSB filters, SSB Transmitters, SSB Demodulation, SSB Receivers. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
5 | Frequency Modulation: Transmission. FM generation (Direct and indirect FM Generation), Phase-Locked Loop FM transmitter, Stereo FM. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
6 | Frequency Modulation: Transmission. FM generation (Direct and indirect FM Generation), Phase-Locked Loop FM transmitter, Stereo FM. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
7 | Frequency Modulation: Reception. RF amplifiers, Limiters, Discriminators, Phase-Locked Loop, Stereo Demodulation. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
8 | Frequency Modulation: Reception. RF amplifiers, Limiters, Discriminators, Phase-Locked Loop, Stereo Demodulation. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
9 | Frequency synthesis, Receiver noise, sensitivity, Dynamic range, High frequency communication modules. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
10 | Frequency synthesis, Receiver noise, sensitivity, Dynamic range, High frequency communication modules. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
11 | Data Transmission, Time-Division Multiple Access, Digital Signal Encoding, Computer Communication. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
12 | Digital Modulation Techniques, Spread-Spectrum Techniques, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
13 | Basic Telephone Operation, Mobile Communications, Local Area Networks, LAN Interconnection. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
14 | Television Receivers, Digital Television, The Front End and IF Amplifiers. | Please, review the lecture notes and glance this week’s topics from your text book. |
15 | Final examination period | Review of topics |
16 | Final examination period | Review of topics |
Sources
Course Book | 1. Modern Electronic Communication, J.S.Beasley and G.M.Miller, 8th edition, Prentice Hall, 2005. |
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Other Sources | 2. Communication Electronics, L.E. Frenzel, McGraw Hill, 3rd edition, 2000. |
3. Modern Communication Circuits, J.R.Smith, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill, 1998. | |
4. Microelectronic Circuits and Devices, M.N.Horenstein, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1996. |
Evaluation System
Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
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Attendance/Participation | - | - |
Laboratory | - | - |
Application | - | - |
Field Work | - | - |
Special Course Internship | - | - |
Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
Homework Assignments | - | - |
Presentation | - | - |
Project | 1 | 20 |
Report | - | - |
Seminar | - | - |
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 2 | 40 |
Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 40 |
Toplam | 4 | 100 |
Percentage of Semester Work | 60 |
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Percentage of Final Work | 40 |
Total | 100 |
Course Category
Core Courses | X |
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Major Area Courses | |
Supportive Courses | |
Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
# | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | Ability to apply knowledge on Mathematics, Science and Engineering to advanced systems. | X | ||||
2 | Implementing long-term research and development studies in the major fields of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. | X | ||||
3 | Ability to use modern engineering tools, techniques and facilities in design and other engineering applications. | X | ||||
4 | Graduating researchers active on innovation and entrepreneurship. | |||||
5 | Ability to report and present research results effectively. | |||||
6 | Increasing the performance on accessing information resources and on following recent developments in science and technology. | |||||
7 | An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. | |||||
8 | Increasing the performance on effective communications in both Turkish and English. | |||||
9 | Increasing the performance on project management. | |||||
10 | Ability to work successfully at project teams in interdisciplinary fields. |
ECTS/Workload Table
Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory | |||
Application | |||
Special Course Internship | |||
Field Work | |||
Study Hours Out of Class | 5 | 5 | 25 |
Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
Project | 1 | 10 | 10 |
Report | |||
Homework Assignments | |||
Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 2 | 14 | 28 |
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 15 | 15 |
Total Workload | 126 |