Lectures

6.083-6.973 Introduction to Digital Communication System Design

(SPRING 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2006 - OCW )

Dual-offering (undergrad/grad), with shared lectures and adjusted weight/topics/level of difficulty on the project, problem sets and exams.

This course covers the digital integrated circuit implementations of fundamental building blocks in today's communication systems (coders and decoders, shaping and equalization filters, multi-tone modulation, synchronization, channel-estimation, multiple-antenna processing). Briefly introducing the communication theory behind different algorithms, the course focuses on techniques for mapping algorithms to modern digital integrated circuits (from micro-architectures to digital chip design techniques). The course is hands-on, with a project component serving as a vehicle for study of different communication techniques, architectures and implementations. Project is a digital integrated circuit implementation of a part of a communication system of choice (radio or wireline modem).

Professor Vladimir Stojanovic, vlada@mit.edu, Room 38-260
Prereq.: 6.011 and 6.111
3-1-8, 6 EDPs

This subject qualifies as both a Devices, Circuits, and Systems Engineering and a Communications and Control Concentration subject.

6.02 Intro to EECS II

(Spring 2008, FALL 2008)

An integrated, hands-on introduction to electrical engineering and computer science. Lectures and laboratory experiments explore modeling transmission systems in the time and frequency domains, analog and digital signaling, detecting and correcting errors, source coding, and the engineering of packet-switched networks. These explorations are used to illustrate some common EECS themes: the role of abstraction and modularity in engineering design, building reliable systems using imperfect components, selecting appropriate design metrics, understanding the limits imposed by energy and noise, choosing effective representations for information, analyzing the performance and correctness of algorithms, and engineering tradeoffs in complex systems.

Professor Vladimir Stojanovic, vlada@mit.edu, Room 38-260
Prereq: 8.02, 6.01 or 6.001, 18.03 or 18.06

2-3-7

Recitations

6.003 Signals and Systems (Spring 2007)

6.002 Circuits and Electronics (Fall 2006)

6.UAT Preparation for Undergraduate Advanced Project (FALL 2005)

6.011 Introduction to Communication Control and Signal Processing (Spring 2005)

Summer and short courses

6.22s High-Speed I/O Design Techniques (Summer 2008)

Date: June 23-25, 2008 (registration deadline: May 23)
Location: MIT Campus | Cambridge, MA
URL: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/high_speed_io_design.html

Explore the circuit and system design of equalized high-speed I/Os. Following an introduction to the basics, focus on different link equalization techniques, comparing them from a system perspective and from the performance of resulting circuit implementations. Course includes one day of hands-on lab experience.

Basics of channel properties. Modeling, measurements, and communications techniques. Focus on different link equalization techniques, comparison from system and circuit implementation perspective. Examples cover trade-offs between transmit pre-emphasis and decision-feedback equalization, linear analog receiver equalization, as well as joint modulation/equalization and equalization/coding techniques (like PAM4, duobinary and multitone signaling). Implementations of transmitter FIR equalizers, several DFE receiver topologies, and peaking amplifiers will be discussed in detail. Several adaptive techniques for equalizer tuning and link monitoring will also be presented.