| 5 | | ELEC 433 teaches students the basics of physical layer development. This includes topics such as filering, modulation, pulse shaping, carrier frequency offset and timing recovery. WARP v3 is used to give hands-on experience with those topics and allow students to see why the issues are so important in the context of actual over-the-air communication with real channel impairments. The course culminates in student-selected projects in advanced topics in digital communications such as MIMO, OFDM, and channel coding. |
| | 5 | ELEC 433 teaches the basics of implementing real digital communications systems. Each week students learn about and implement a new subsystem, including multi-rate filering, modulation, pulse shaping, carrier frequency offset and timing recovery. Students then implement the subsystem in real-time on the WARP v3 FPGA using the Xilinx System Generator and XPS tool flows. These lectures and lab assignments culminate in a working over-the-air link between WARP v3 nodes. In the last month of the course students also complete projects in advanced topics, such as MIMO, OFDM and channel coding, all using WARP hardware. |
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| | 7 | Rice has offered ELEC 433 every year since 2005, when the course was first offered (taught by Patrick Murphy, now with Mango) using Xilinx XtremeDSP kits. The course was ported to WARP v1 (by Chris Hunter, also with Mango), then to WARP v2 (by Michael Wu, PhD candidate at Rice) and this year to WARP v3 (by Evan Everett, Rice PhD student, and current ELEC 433 teacher). |
