Experiment Capabilities

EMONA TELECOMS-TRAINER 101
Experiment Capabilities:

ANALOG BASICS

1. Amplitude Modulation (AM)

modulation: 2 methods
envelope detection
product detection (coherent)
AM in a noisy channel

2. Double Side Band (DSB)

suppressed carrier
product detection (coherent)
DSB in a noisy channel

3. Single Sideband (SSB)

generation only (upper & lower)

4. Phase Modulation (PM)

Armstrong's Phase modulator

5. Phase Division Modulation (PDM)

phase division demodulation

6. Frequency Modulation (FM)

generation by VCO (wideband)
demodulation by PLL
demodulation by zero crossing method

7.Pulse Amplitude Modulation(PAM)

sampling theorem / Nyquist
aliasing
reconstruction
time division multiplexing (TDM)

8. Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)

9. Speech and Audio messages

message inversion
message translation

10. Superheterodyne principles

INTRO TO ADVANCED ANALOG

11. Carrier Acquisition using PLL

12. Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) - Intro to concept: requires optional PC-Based instrument

13. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)

modulation
demodulation

DIGITAL BASICS

14. Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)

encoding
decoding & reconstruction
sampling rate
aliasing, undersampling and oversampling
synchronization

15. Time Division Multiplexing (PCM - TDM)

16. Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)

modulation
envelope recovery
synchronous recovery

17. Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK)

modulation/demodulation

18. Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)

modulation
envelope recovery

19. Introduction to GFSK

20. Pulse shaping

21. Data recovery

noisy channel (SNR)
requires optional PC-Based instrument

22. Intersymbol Interference (ISI) - eye patterns/diagrams

INTRO TO ADVANCED DIGITAL

23. Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK)

modulation/demodulation

24. Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK)

modulation/demodulation

25. Spread Spectrum (SS)

introduction to direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)

26. Line coding

NRZ - L
Alternate Mark Inversion (AMI)
Manchester (Bi - phase)
Differential encoding (NRZ - M)

27. Frequency Synthesis

with PLL

28. PN sequence spectrum display - requires optional PC-Based instrument option

29. Noise generation

30. Introduction to Undersampling in Software Defined Radio

OPTIONAL EXPANSION BLOCKS

Student project breadboard
Additional VCO, TPG functions
Tuned circuits
Constellation generation

BASIC ACADEMIC CORE SKILLS

Thinking Skills
Problem solving activities, evaluating evidence, interpreting instructions, analysing evidence and drawing conclusions
Science Skills
Measurement, experimental procedure, system building, electricity and waveforms
Math Skills
Mathematical operators, equations, trigonometric functions, continuous and sampled functions, charts and graphs, positive and negative values