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Course Description

Course Name:	C19 - DSP For Wireless Communications - Part II
Time & Date:	6:00 - 9:00 PM, Tuesdays, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Location:	Holiday Inn Select Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA
Speaker:	Dan Boschen, Hittite Microwave Corporation

Course Summary

This course is a continuation of the popular IEEE course “DSP for Wireless Communications” also taught by Dan Boschen, detailing digital signal processing most applicable to practical real world problems and applications in radio communication systems.

This course brings together core DSP concepts to address signal processing challenges encountered in radios and modems for modern wireless communications. Areas covered include carrier and timing recovery, equalization, automatic gain control, and considerations to mitigate the effects of RF and channel distortions such as multipath, phase noise and amplitude/phase offsets.

Dan builds an intuitive understanding of the underlying mathematics through the use of graphics, visual demonstrations, and real world applications for mixed signal (analog/digital) modern transceivers. This course is applicable to DSP algorithm development with a focus on meeting practical hardware development challenges, rather than a tutorial on DSP processor implementation.

Target Audience:

All engineers involved in or interested in signal processing for wireless communications. Students should have either taken the first part of this course “DSP for Wireless Communications” or have been sufficiently exposed to basic signal processing concepts such as Fourier, Laplace, and Z-transforms, Digital filter (FIR/IIR) structures, and representation of complex signals in the time and frequency domains. Please contact Dan at boschen@loglin.com if you are uncertain about your background or if you would like more information on the course.

Benefits of Attending/Goals of Course:

Attendees will gain a strong intuitive understanding of the practical and common signal processing implementations found in modern radio and modem architectures and be able to apply these concepts directly to communications system design.

OUTLINE:

Class 1: DSP Review, Radio Architectures, Data Converter (ADC/DAC) considerations

Class 2: Digital Control Loops; Automatic Gain Control (AGC), Output Power Control, Sigma Delta Converters

Class 3: Numerically Controlled Oscillators, Direct Digital Synthesizers, Cordic Rotator

Class 4: Digital Control Loops; Carrier Tracking and Recovery, Timing Recovery, RF Signal Impairments

Class 5: Equalization and Compensation, Linear Feedback Shift Registers

Speaker’s Bio:

Dan Boschen has a MS in Communications and Signal Processing from Northeastern University, with 20 years of experience in system and hardware design for radio transceivers and modems. He has held various positions at Signal Technologies, Hittite, MITRE and Airvana designing and developing digital and RF transceiver hardware from baseband to antenna for wireless communications systems. Dan is currently at Hittite Microwave leading R&D efforts for advanced high capacity (multi-Gbps) radio transceivers.

For more background information, please view Dan’s Linked-In page at http://www.linkedin.com/in/danboschen

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, April 23, 2012

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