EE/TE 4385 DSP-Based Design Project I

Software-Defined Radio Project

Fall 2005

Course Name and Number: EE/TE 4385 DSP-Based Design Project I

Instructor: Prof. Murat Torlak
Instructor’s Information: ECSN 4.908, torlak@utdallas.edu
Office Hours: T 2:00PM-4:00PM or by appointment
Lecture Time and Place: M 3:30-4:45PM and ECSN 2.126
Lab Times and Place: W and (an additional day) 2:00-4:45PM, ECSN 3.112/3.114
Course Web Site: www.utdallas.edu/~torlak/courses/DSProject
TA: Namjin Kim, namjin@student.utdallas.edu
Grading: homework and class participation (10%),
Midterm (10%), Laboratory (30%), and Project (50%).

Prerequisites: EE2310 and one of EE3350, EE4361, and 4350

Attendance: Attendance at lectures and labs are mandatory.

Course Description: This senior design project course will give an intuitive feel for basic
discrete-time signal processing concepts and hands-on experience in translating these concepts
into Software-Defined Radio using digital signal processor technology.

Required Text and Lab Manual:

• Text: C. Richard Johnson, Jr., and William A. Sethares, Telecommunication Breakdown,

Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-143047-5, 2004.

• Lab Manual: Kehtarnavaz and Kim,Digital Signal Processing System-Level Design Using
LabVIEW, Elsevier/Newnes, 2005

• Labview: Labview interactive tutorials at http://www.ni.com/labview

Recommended Texts:

• Steven A. Tretter, Communication system design using DSP algorithms: with laboratory
experiments for the TMS320C6701 and TM320C6711, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publish-
ers, ISBN 030647429-8, 2003. Corrections and code at http://www.ece.umd.edu/~tretter.

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 • James H. McClellan, Ronald W. Schafer, and Mark A. Yoder, Signal Processing First,
Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2003.

• Rulph Chassaing, DSP applications using C and the TMS320C6x DSK, A Wiley-Interscience
Publication, 1999.

• J. Kurzweil, An Introduction to Digital Communications, Wiley, 2002.

Topical Outline:

• real-time digital signal processing – signals, sampling, filters, quantization;

• digital communication system engineering – modulation, pulse shaping, and pseudo ran-
dom sequences;

• digital signal processor architectures – Harvard architecture, special addressing modes,

parallel instructions, real-time programming, pipelining, modern DSP architectures.

Lab Policy: Form lab teams. Each team must have two members. Five laboratory experiments
and reports need to be completed.
Homework Policy: Collaboration on solving the homework problems is encouraged. Turning
in identical homework solutions, however, will be considered cheating. Late homework will not
be accepted. Lowest homework grade will be dropped.
Project Guidelines and Policy: After completing five laboratory experiments, each lab
group will build a complete digital radio (or a software-defined radio) that includes each part of
a typical digital communication system. You will build your digital radio based on 4000 bits/sec
voiceband QAM modem at 2KHz using TI TMS320C6711 DSK. You will have to complete

• Labview simulation of digital radio based on 8-PSK and 4-PSK (QAM) modulation and
demodulation and a 4-page description of your simulation (due: Wendesday lab, 10/26/05)

• Project demonstration based on TMS320C6711 DSK (Labview, C, and Assembly) and

presentations are scheduled for Monday 11/28/05. A project report will be due at 2PM,
Friday, 12/2/05.

Academic Dishonesty: Please see the UTD undergraduate catalog for policy on academic
dishonesty.