Digital Signal Processing (DSP) For Software Radio – Interactive Webinar

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Dates:   Tuesdays: July 28, August 4, 11, 18, 25, Thursdays, July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 27

(This course consists of 10, 1.5 hour sessions)

Time:  6:30PM – 8:00PM

Where:  Live – Interactive Webinar 

Speaker: Dan Boschen

Course Summary: This course builds on the IEEE course “DSP for Wireless Communications” also taught by Dan Boschen, further detailing digital signal processing most applicable to practical real-world problems and applications in radio communication systems. Students need not have taken the prior course if they are familiar with fundamental DSP concepts such as the Laplace and Z transform and basic digital filter design principles. The course title has been changed with some minor additions but this is the same course that was previously taught titled “More DSP for Wireless Communications”, with the addition of Python demonstrations using Jupyter Notebooks.

This course brings together core DSP concepts to address signal processing challenges encountered in radios and modems for modern wireless communications. Specific 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 implementations with DSP processors.

Now with Jupyter Notebooks!

This long-running IEEE Course has been updated to include Jupyter Notebooks which incorporates graphics together with Python simulation code to provide a “take-it-with-you” interactive user experience. No knowledge of Python is required but the notebooks will provide a basic framework for proceeding with further signal processing development using that tools for those that have interest in doing so.

This course will not be teaching Python, but using it for demonstration. A more detailed course on Python itself is covered in a separate IEEE Course “Python Applications for Digital Design and Signal Processing”.

Students will be encouraged but not required to install the Anaconda Python distribution. All set-up information for installation will be provided prior to the start of the course

Target Audience: All engineers involved in or interested in signal processing for wireless communications. Students should have either taken the earlier 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 digital and analog 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.

Topics / Schedule:

Sessions 1A&1B: DSP Review, Radio Architectures, Digital Mapping, Pulse Shaping, Eye Diagrams

 

Sessions 2A&2B: ADC Receiver, CORDIC Rotator, Digital Down Converters, Numerically Controlled
Oscillators

Sessions 3A&3B: Digital Control Loops; Output Power
Control, Automatic Gain Control

Sessions 4A&4B: Digital Control Loops; Carrier and Timing Recovery, Sigma Delta Converters

Sessions 5A&5B: RF Signal Impairments, Equalization and Compensation, Linear Feedback Shift Registers

 

Speaker’s Bio: Dan Boschen has a MS in Communications and Signal Processing from Northeastern University, with over 25 years of experience in system and hardware design for radio transceivers and modems. He has held various positions at Signal Technologies, MITRE, Airvana and Hittite Microwave designing and developing transceiver hardware from baseband to antenna for wireless communications systems. Dan is currently at Microchip (formerly Microsemi and Symmetricom) leading design efforts for advanced frequency and time solutions.

For more background information, please view Dan’s Linked-In page at:

If you have any questions, please reach out to us via phone or email: Phone 781-245-5405, email ieeebostonsection@gmail.com

Registration Rates:

Members:  $190.00

Non-Members:  $210.00

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