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Home > Courses > Electrical Engineering and Computer Science > Principles of Digital Communication II > Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes

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The course notes are written by Prof. David Forney, and are organized by chapter. In addition to downloadable lecture notes, video files of each lecture are provided below.

Lecture files.
Lec # Chapters Topics
1 1-3 Introduction - Sampling Theorem and Orthonormal PAM/QAM - Capacity of AWGN Channels
2 4 Performance of Small Signal Constellations
3 5 Hard-decision and Soft-decision Decoding
4 5 Hard-decision and Soft-decision Decoding cont.
5 6 Introduction to Binary Block Codes
6 6 Introduction to Binary Block Codes cont.
7 7 Introduction to Finite Fields
8 7 Introduction to Finite Fields cont.
9 7 Introduction to Finite Fields cont.
10 8 Reed-Solomon Codes
11 8 Reed-Solomon Codes cont.
12 8 Reed-Solomon Codes cont.
13 9 Introduction to Convolutional Codes
14 9 Introduction to Convolutional Codes cont.
15 10 Trellis Representations of Binary Linear Block Codes
16 10 Trellis Representations of Binary Linear Block Codes cont.
17 11 Codes on Graphs
18 11 Codes on Graphs cont.
19 12 The Sum-Product Algorithm
20 13 Turbo, LDPC, and RA Codes
21 13 Turbo, LDPC, and RA Codes cont.
22 14 Lattice and Trellis Codes
23 14 Lattice and Trellis Codes cont.
24 15 Linear Gaussian Channels
25 15 Linear Gaussian Channels cont.
 
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