Transceiver and Systems Design for Digital Communications

This seminar provides an intuitive approach to transceiver design for both commercial and military sectors, allowing a broad spectrum of readers to understand the topics clearly. It covers a wide range of data link communication design techniques, including link budgets, dynamic range and system analysis of receivers and transmitters used in data link communications, digital modulation and demodulation techniques of phase-shift keyed and frequency hopped spread spectrum systems using phase diagrams, multipath, gain control, an intuitive approach to probability, jamming reduction method using various adaptive processes, error detection and correction, global positioning systems (GPS) data link, satellite communications, direction-finding and interferometers, plus a section on broadband communications and home networking including Link 16, JTRS, military radios, and networking. Also included is a section on Cognitive Systems. Various techniques and designs are evaluated for modulating and sending digital data. Thus the student gains a firm understanding of the processes needed to effectively design wireless data link communication systems.