====== Course Outline ======

===== Main Topics =====

For the most part we'll be sticking closely to the Sklar text and working in order through the book.  The numbers in brackets refer to sections in the book

  * Digital communications overview (1.1)
  * Mathematical descriptions of deterministic signals (1.2, 1.3, 1.4)
  * Mathematical descriptions of random signals (1.5)
  * Linear systems (1.6)
  * Analog-to-Digital conversion (2.4, 2.5)
  * Pulse modulation (2.6)
  * Baseband modulation/line coding (2.8)
  * Baseband detection [matched/correlating detection] (3.1, 3.2)
  * Intersymbol Interference (3.3)
  * Equalization (3.4)
  * Bandpass modulation (4.1, 4.2)
  * Bandpass detection (4.3, 4.4, 4.5)
  * Multicarrier Modulation
  * Error performance (4.7, 4.8, 4.9)
  * Linear block codes (6.3, 6.4)
  * Cyclic codes (6.7)
  * Convolutional codes (7.1, 7.2, 7.3)
  * Convolutional decoders (7.4, 7.5)