Ece 7712-600 (20136) Digital Communications

Host University

University of Virginia

Semester

Fall 2025

Course Number

ECE 7712

CRN

20136

Credits

3

Discipline

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Instructor

Nickolaos Sidiropoulos

Times and Days

Asynchronous

Course Information

An in-depth treatment of digital communications techniques and performance. Topics include performance of uncoded systems such as Mary, PSK, FSK, and multi-level signaling; orthogonal and bi-orthogonal codes; block and convolutional coding with algebraic and maximum likelihood decoding; burst correcting codes; efficiency and bandwidth; synchronization for carrier reference and bit timing; baseband signaling techniques; intersymbol interference; and equalization.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: ECE 6711.