Dr. Russell Hardie, ECE401L - Fall 2006

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS LAB

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Welcome to ECE401L! This website will list all of the assignments and relevant information for the course.

Start preparing for the lab practical exam NOW!

ECE401L Experiments

#	Start Date	Experiment	Date due	Comments
1	8/22	Introduction to Communications Lab and Equipment	9/5	1 week lab Prelab is to set up your computers (link here)
2	8/29*	AM Transmitter Using Chopper Modulation	9/19	2 week lab
3	9/12*	AM Modulation and Demodulation	10/17	3 week lab
4	10/3*	Crystal Oscillator and Frequency Multiplier	10/31	2 week lab
5	10/24*	Frequency Modulation and Demodulation	11/14	2 week lab (not easy to do in 2 weeks). Replace unity gain buffer with amplifier in Fig. 1. Gain of 10 should be sufficient.
6	Week of 11/7	Digital Baseband Communications	11/21	Sign up for a 2 hour time slot. Some groups can catch up on Lab 5.
7	11/14*	Noncoherent FSK Demodulator	12/9	3 week lab.
8	12/9-12/11 Sign up for time	Lab Practical Exam	N/A	This is easy if you have been participating in all aspects of the lab

* Completed pre-lab assignments are due by 4:30PM the day before the start of each specified lab experiment (prepare and submit individually to the TA, Brian Smith, in his ECE mailbox in KL341). Lab reports 2-6 are also to be prepared and submitted individually at the start of lab on the specified due date.

Supplementary Information

· Web Links

1. Reading component values and other stuff

2. Crystal radios and old fashioned transmitters

· Crystal Radio Circuits

· Crystal Set Design 102

· What’s Old is New Again!

· Spark Transmitter