Software Defined Radio detailed syllabus for Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (ETE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ETE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ETE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to ETE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of software defined radio is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE RADIO
The Need for Software Radios. Characteristics and Benefits of a Software Radio. Design Principles of a Software Radio.
Unit II
RF IMPLEMENTATION
Purpose of RF front – end, Dynamic range, RF receiver front – end topologies, Enhanced flexibility of the RF chain with software radios, Importance of the components to overall performance, Transmitter architectures and their issues, Noise and distortion in the RF chain, Hybrid DDS – PLL systems, Applications of Direct Digital Synthesis.
Unit III
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Unit IV
SMART ANTENNAS
Benefits of smart antennas, Structures for beamforming systems, Smart antenna algorithms, Hardware implementation of smart antennas, Digital Hardware Choices-Key hardware elements.
Unit V
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR SDR & CASE STUDIES
DSP Processors, FPGA, ASICs. Trade-offs, Object oriented programming, Object Brokers, GNU Radio-USRP. Case Studies: SPEAK easy, JRTS, SDR-3000.
Practical Exercises
- Study of SDR hardware kit
- Design and Implementation of digital modulation schemes using SDR
- Implementation of synchronization techniques using SDR
- Channel Coding Techniques using SDR
- Study of channel estimation techniques using SDR
- Study of MIMO concepts using SDR
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Jeffrey Hugh Reed, “Software Radio: A Modern Approach to Radio Engineering,” Prentice Hall Professional, 2002.
- Tony J Rouphael, “RF and DSP for SDR,” Elsevier Newnes Press, 2008.
Reference Books:
- P. Kenington, “RF and Baseband Techniques for Software Defined Radio,” Artech House, 2005.
- Paul Burns, “Software Defined Radio for 3G,” Artech House, 2002.
- Behrouz. F. Bourjney“ Signal Processing for Software defined Radios”, Lulu 2008.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 5th Sem, visit ETE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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