Training - Courses

Objective: Understand the Communications Blockset and related MathWorks products

• Introduction to the Communications Blockset
• Overview of other required products
• Course expectations
• Overview of a communication system
• A closer look at the Communications Blockset block library

Objective: Create data in MATLAB and use it in a simple Simulink model simulation

• Creating data in MATLAB
• Manipulating matrices
• Creating data for Simulink
• Using scripts and functions
• Creating a Simulink model
• Managing input/output from the command line
• Running a simulation

Objective: Generate and observe signals in the Communications Blockset

• Exploring signal support
• Working with communications sources
• Working with communications sinks

Objective: Use Simulink to model the transmitter side of a communication system.

• Working with Modulation
• Working with baseband and passband modulation
• Working with digital modulation
• Exploring delays in digital modulations
• Working with analog modulation
• Interleaving
• Coding
• Block coding
• Convolution coding
• CRC coding
• Source coding

Objective: Use the Communications Blockset to represent communication channels

• Adding white Gaussian noise to the input signal
• Simulating fading propagation channels
• Using the binary symmetric channel

Objective: Use Simulink to model the receiver side of a communication system

• Deinterleaving
• Detecting and correcting errors
• Synchronizing

Objective: Identify common communication systems and use the blockset to design and simulate them

• Creating a carrier recovery system
• Creating a software-defined radio with channel equalization
• Creating a Bluetooth system
• Exploring other applications