Simon Fraser University School of Engineering Science ENSC 805 Advanced Digital Communications

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Simon Fraser UniversitySchool of Engineering
ScienceENSC 805 Advanced Digital
Communications
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Basic Course Information

• Instructor Jim Cavers, cavers_at_sfu.ca, tel
  778-782-3281
• Text J.G. Proakis, Digital Communications, 4th
  ed.
• Course website http//www.ensc.sfu.ca/people/facu
  lty/cavers/ENSC805/
• Two 1 ½ hour lectures per week, 13 weeks Tu/Th
  530-700pm Vancouver time
• 4 to 6 assignments and a final exam

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Youre all over the map

• Students in the room at SFU
• Students elsewhere in Vancouver
• Students in Calgary (NovAtel)
• Students in Christchurch (Tait Electronics)
• Where are these places?

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To work together, get these

• Headphones with mic
• Skype for your group discussions
• MS NetMeeting for small (e.g., two) group
  discussions with whiteboard
• Optionally, a Wacom tablet for whiteboard

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Website resources

• lecture notes (deliberately incomplete)
• past assignments and solutions
• demos and supplementary notes
• selected journal papers if you want to read more
• links to related courses
• take a tour

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Discussions

• guest lecture from Lee Pucker, CTO Spectrum
  Signal Processing, on DSP implementation of
  transmitter, receiver structures
• post-class QA
• office hours at SFU and by web

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Questions?

• Like when are office hours?