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 ====== Course Outline ======
-The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:
+===== Main Topics =====
-===== Week 1 =====
+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
-Your notes here.
-===== Week 2 =====
-===== Midterm =====
-===== Drop Deadline =====
-===== Week 13 =====
-===== Final Exam =====
+  * 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)