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Principles of Digital Communication I

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States6.450
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2009English
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The course serves as an introduction to the theory and practice behind many of today’s communications systems. 6.450 forms the first of a two-course sequence on digital communication. The second class, 6.451 Principles of Digital Communication II, is offered in the spring. Topics covered include: digital communications at the block diagram level, data compression, Lempel-Ziv algorithm, scalar and vector quantization, sampling and aliasing, the Nyquist criterion, PAM and QAM modulation, signal…

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