ENPM601

Analog and Digital Communication Systems

Prerequisite: ENPM600; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department. Restriction: Permission of Maryland Applied Graduate Engineering. Analog modulation methods including AM, DSBSC-AM, SSB, and QAM; effects of noise in analog modulation systems. Digital communication methods for the infinite bandwidth additive white Gaussian noise channel: PAM, QAM, PSK, FSK modulation; optimum receivers using the MAP principle; phase- locked loops; error probabilities. Digital communication over bandlimited channels: intersymbol interference and Nyquist's criterion, adaptive equalizers, symbol clock and carrier recovery systems, trellis coding. Spread spectrum systems: direct sequence modulation and frequency hopping.

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.53 between 80 students*

ENPM601 Grade Distribution+-051015202530354045505560% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 18.75%
A: 20%
A+: 17.5%
B-: 10%
B: 12.5%
B+: 18.75%
C: 1.25%
other: 1.25%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.