This course identifies the key system design parameters, showing how they compound in a given configuration and hence how they relate to the top-level specifications. The course builds from basic models and descriptions of system behaviour. Describing common receiver and transmitter architectures, understanding the key impairments to reliable communications and looking at system solutions to modulation, multiple access and air interface standards. Various tools are used to provide accurate initial estimates of component performance while others show the relative contribution of each circuit block to the total. These tools help isolate critical parameters allowing designers to focus on the key aspects. In this way, designers can focus on the key elements that have to be solved to meet a design requirement in a cost effective manner while making sure that all the parts, when put together, will work as expected.

Recognizing that system design is not completely analytic, the course illustrates the art of design with practical analysis tools. The lectures contain useful formulations of key analysis techniques as well as Excel templates and practical tips applied to commercial CAD tools. The more advanced design concepts are illustrated with examples using commercial software.

Radio System Design – Theory and Practice
May 21-May 25, 2012	Course 180-4476
Presented by Rick Fornes	$2295