Lab oriented Theory Course

Subject Subject Name Category L T P C

Code
EC19441 DIGITAL COMMUNICATION PC 3 0 2 4

Objectives:
 To understand the functional components and principles of digital communication system
 To study the various time and frequency domain waveform coding schemes
 To learn the various baseband schemes and its effect on signal transmission
 To understand the various Band pass signaling schemes and spread spectrum techniques
 To know the fundamentals of channel coding

UNIT-I SAMPLING & QUANTIZATION 9

Low pass Sampling, Aliasing, Signal reconstruction - Quantization - Uniform & non-uniform quantization -
Quantization noise - Logarithmic companding of speech signal

UNIT-II WAVEFORM CODING 9

Transmitter and Receiver of PCM, DPCM, Delta modulation, ADPCM, ADM - Line codes and its
properties - TDM

UNIT-III BASEBAND TRANSMISSION 9

ISI - Nyquist criterion for distortion less transmission - Pulse shaping - Eye pattern - Correlative coding -
Equalization - Adaptive equalization - LMS algorithm

UNIT-IV DIGITAL MODULATION SCHEME 9

Generation, Detection, BER & Signal space diagram for Coherent BPSK, BFSK & QPSK - QAM –
Non coherent receiver - Principle of DPSK

UNIT-V ERROR CONTROL CODING 9

Channel coding theorem - Linear Block Codes - Hamming codes - Cyclic codes - Convolutional codes,
Viterbi decoder.

Contact Hours : 45
List of Experiments
1 Signal Sampling and reconstruction
2 Time Division Multiplexing
3 AM, FM Modulator and Demodulator
4 Pulse Code Modulation and Demodulation
5 Delta Modulation and Demodulation
6 Line coding schemes
7 Simulation of BPSK, BFSK, QPSK, QAM and DPSK schemes
8 Simulation of Error control coding scheme - Linear Block Codes
Contact Hours : 35
Total Contact Hours : 75

Course Outcomes:
 On completion of the course, the students will be able to
To illustrate the blocks in a design of digital communication system and to perform time and frequency

analysis of the signals.
 To describe the various waveform coding schemes
 To interpret the various baseband transmission schemes
 To analyze the error performance of various Band pass signaling schemes
 To evaluate various channel coding techniques

Text Books:
1 Simon Haykin, “Communication Systems”, 4th Edition, John Wiley, 2000.

Reference Books:
1 S. Haykin, “Digital Communications”, John Wiley, 2005
B. Sklar, “Digital Communication Fundamentals and Applications”, 2nd Edition, Pearson
2
Education, 2009
3 H P Hsu, Schaum Outline Series - “Analog and Digital Communications”, TMH 2006
4 J.G Proakis, “Digital Communication”, 4th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Company, 2001.
B.P.Lathi, -Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems‖ 3rd Edition,
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Oxford University Press 2007.

Web links for virtual lab:

1 http://vlab.amrita.edu/index.php?sub=59&brch=163
2 http://vlab.co.in/broad-area-electronics-and-communications

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