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Instructor
• Dr. Marco Tacca
Department of Electrical Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas.
Telephone: (972) 8836239
Email: mtacca@utdallas.edu
Website: www.utdallas.edu/~mtacca/
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 12:00 to 1PM
Room: ECSN3.522
Teaching Assistants
• Anuj Raj Ojha <anuj.ojha@student.utdallas.edu>
• Durga P Prasad <dpp061000@utdallas.edu>
• N Patel <anp055000@utdallas.edu>
• PoYu Kuo <pxk047000@utdallas.edu>
Course Objective
This is a companion laboratory to EE 3350. It covers: fundamental elements of communications
systems hardware; use of spectrum analyzers and other measurement instruments typically
encountered in communication systems; design of active filters in communications systems;
analog frequency and amplitude modulators and demodulators; data communication systems.
Corequisite: EE 3350 Digital Circuits.
• You must download the lab manual from here one week before the experiment date.
• In this course, all the spectral functions must be expressed as functions of the variable f
with units of Hertz, do not use and rad/sec. Appendix A is a table of Fourier transform
pairs in terms of f.
• Software required to complete some of the experiments is PSPICE, which is available in
the campus computer labs.
• You will also need to use ANY software (MATLAB, MATHCAD, Excel, etc.) with
plotting capabilities in order to create graphs from analytical functions. Some MATLAB
scripts will be provided as hints throughout the course; however, MATLAB
programming is not a prerequisite and will not be taught in this course.
• You must perform the prelab individually. You may seek help from the instructor or the
TA to complete the prelab. Their office hours are posted in the website.
• Prelab is due at the end of the lab period. LATE prelabs will NOT be accepted under any
circumstance.
• Make sure to sign up your name in the attendance sheet in every experiment.
• During the lab period, upon the completion of a significant step (measurement or
observation) ask the TA to verify your results. DO NOT PROCEED to the next step until
the TA has verified and taken note of your results.
• Lab reports must be done individually and are due at the beginning of the following
experiment. LATE REPORTS will be penalized by 30% if are submitted within one
week of the due date, and NOT accepted after one week.
Grading Policy
Final grade in this course will be based on 6 laboratory assignments. All labs have an equal
weight in the final grade. Grading will be based on prelab work, laboratory reports and inlab.
performance (i.e., completing lab, answering laboratory related questions, etc.). TAs and/or the
instructor will ask pertinent questions to individual members of a team at random.
Labs will be graded as per the following grading policy:
PreLab Work 20.00%
InLab Performance 40.00%
Laboratory Report 40.00%
Inlab. performance (i.e., completing lab, answering laboratory related questions, etc.) will be
graded with the following procedure. TAs will ask pertinent questions to individual members of
a team at random during each lab. Additionally, each student must sign up his/her name in the
attendance sheet in every experiment.
Each lab will equally contribute to the final grade.
Laboratory Report
• Lab and prelab. reports will be written individually.
• Please do not copy lab. reports! You will only cheat yourself, if you do. Please read the
UT Dallas policy on scholastic dishonesty at:
http://www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/dishonesty.html
• Please use the following format for your lab. reports:
• Cover: Includes course number, topic of the assignment, names of team members
and your section.
• Abstract: Brief introduction to the assignment and a summary of results.
• For the rest of the report please follow the instructions given in individual
laboratory assignments.
Reports Due Dates
Prelab reports are due by the end of the first corresponding lab. Reports are due one week after
completion of the correponding lab. Late prelab will not be accepted. Late lab report will
receive a 30% penalty. Reports that are turned in one week after the deadline will not be
accepted and will not count toward the final grade.