Training - Courses

Objective: Understand the Communications Blockset and related MathWorks products

• Introduction to the Communications Blockset
• Course expectations
• Overview of a communication system

Objective: To review Simulink topics necessary for the training.  An AM system will be built to demonstrate basic concepts in Simulink.

• Building a simple AM Model in Simulink
• Creating a subsystem
• Visualizing a signal in the time and frequency domain
• Working with MATLAB data
• Simulating the model from the command line

Objective: To use the Communication Blockset to build an end-to-end QPSK model and become familiar with the different visualization tools within the blockset.

• Communication Blockset Introduction
• Creating a QPSK Transmitter Model
• Generating a Random Source
• Frame-Based Processing
• QPSK Modulator
• Scatter Plot
• Pulse-Shaping Filter
• Eye Diagram
• Creating an Equivalent Receiver
• Calculating System Delay
• Calculating Error Rate Statistics

Objective: To analyze the BER performance of an end-to-end communication system by writing a MATLAB script and BERTool.

• Performance Analysis and BER Curve
• Automating Performance Analysis: Scripts
• AWGN uncode
• Adding channel coding
• Automating Performance Analysis: BERTool
• Theory Results
• Semianalytic Technique
• Simulation
• BERTool: m-file Functions

Objective:  To add channel impairments and recovery blocks to test receiver performance.

• Adding Phase and Frequency Offset
• Correcting Phase and Frequency using DQPSK
• Phase Recovery Block
• Adding Timing Offset
• Squaring Timing Recovery
• Multi-path Channel Impairments
• Equalization using the Embedded MATLAB Function Block