Week of	Mon Lec: 32-155, 2-3	Wed Lec: 32-155, 2-3 Lab: 32-083, 9-12 or 2-5	Fri Lec: 32-155, 2-3
Feb 04	Reg Day	Lec 1: Course overview, lab environment	Lec 2: Fourier Series introduction, decomposition of periodic waveforms
Feb 11	Lec 3: Fourier Series with complex exponentials, Fourier Transform	Lab 1: Analyze and synthesize music in time & frequency domains	Lec 4: Modulation Mini Quiz, HW due
Feb 18	Class held on Tue, Feb 19 Lec 5: Filtering in continuous and discrete time; RC filter demo	Lab 2: Modulation and filtering; receiving Frequency Division Multiplexed (FDM) signals	Lec 6: I/Q Modulation Mini Quiz, HW due
Feb 25	Lec 7: Analog radio	Lec 8: Introduce the digital abstraction, digital representation of waveforms	Lec 9: Digital Modulation I: PAM, QAM, eye diagrams, constellations HW due
Mar 03	Lec 10: Digital Modulation II: noise, inter-symbol interference, raised cosine filter	Lab 3: Digital Modulation: quantized amplitude, eye diagram. Design 16-QAM receiver.	Lec 11: Energy and noise: bit error rate (BER) vs. signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Mini Quiz, HW due
Mar 10	Lec 12: Digital modulation examples: multitone, wifi, dsl	Lab 4: Noise in digital receivers: BER vs. SNR	Quiz 1 HW due
Mar 17	Lec 13: Error detection and correction	Lab 5: Implement channel coding for digital receiver, decode corrupted bit stream	Lec 14: Reed-Solomon codes, CD example Mini Quiz, HW due
Mar 24	Spring Break
Mar 31	Lec 15: Combinational logic	Lab 6: gate-level implementation of channel coding	Lec 16: Arithmetic Circuits Mini Quiz, HW due
Apr 07	Lec 17: Registers & pipelining	Lab 7: gate-level implementation of FIR filter	Lec 18: Source coding: entropy, variable-length codes Mini Quiz, HW due
Apr 14	Lec 19: Perceptual coding, JPEG example	Lab 8: Implement & evaluate Huffman codes for run-length encoded text images.	Quiz 2 HW due
Apr 21	Patriots Day	Lec 20: Intro to networking. Resource sharing and switching principles	Lec 21: Channel access protocols (e.g., Aloha) and other link layer functions
Apr 28	Lec 22: Best-effort networks, coping with complexity with layering	Lab 9: Radio channel sharing protocols	Lec 23: Network layer: addressing, forwarding and routing Mini Quiz, HW due
May 05	Lec 24: Routing (cont.)	Lab 10: Link-state routing: distributing routing information and shortest-path algorithm	Lec 25: Routing wrap-up, designing large networks Mini Quiz, HW due
May 12	Lec 26: Transport layer: reliable data delivery (loss recovery and windowing)	Lab 11: Implement a reliable transport protocol in the presence of lossy communication links.
May 19	Quiz 3 (Monday 5/19, 9:00a, Johnson Ice Rink)