STopics in Communications(FPGA based Communication System Design)

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1 - Course overview - FPGA based DSP system design - Reading: Cases keynote speech_Vissers_Xilinx
10 - Overview of communication systems - Term project proposal presentation (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
11 - Lab: Simple communication system with timing synchronizer - Digital modulation techniques - CDMA and OFDM
12 - MIMO and advanced communication topics
13 - Invited lecture planned - SDR wireless transceiver design
14 Quiz 4 (15 minutes) - Paper presentation: MIMO
15 - Term project result presentation
16 - Term project result presentation
2 - Matlab/Simulink for DSP system design - FPGA Device Structure -Reading: 01_Intro (Xilinx material)
3 Quiz 1 (15 minutes) - Simulink, System Generator flow video - Accel DSP video - Reading: 02_DSP design flow (Xilinx material)
4 - DSP algorithm overview (digital filtering) - Reading: 03_Filters (Xilinx material) - March 25(Tue) 1st homework due, 2nd homework will go.
5 Quiz 2(15 minutes) - Fixed-point optimization - Fixed-point optimization & lab - Reading: 04_Hood_fixed point(Xilinx material)
6 - VLSI (FPGA) DSP architecture (full array, time mux, bit serial) - 05_Control (Xilinx material) - System Generator for FPGA based synthesis (Simulink system generator for video applications) Reading: FPGA friendly digital filtering, retiming (Xilin
7 Quiz 3 (15 minutes) - CORDIC algorithm (Xilinx DSP Primer) - Timing and synchronization (Timing issues Xilinx DSP Primer) - Reading: 06_multirate (Xilinx material)
8 - VHDL, HDL cosimulation for MAC filter verification - Adaptive filtering (Xilinx DSP Primer)
9 - Digital Down Converter (DDC) - Midterm