An Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory with Matlab

1 Jan Chojcan, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice POLAND, passed away on June 8 2 Jacek Izydorczyk, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice POLAND, [email protected] 3 Grzegorz Dziwoki, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice POLAND, [email protected] Abstract  Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science of the Silesian University of Technology, in Gliwice Poland is developing Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory for undergraduate and graduate courses in Matlab. The main objective is to show a lot of modern communications technologies in virtual laboratory. Solution is a student book accompanied by Matlab’s m-files and WWW pages using WWW extension of Matlab. The last is the core of the virtual laboratory. Exercises start from introduction to digital signal processing and go from the analog modulations techniques to the digital ones, digital equalization, digital synchronization, PLL technology, noise analysis, analog to digital conversion and speech compression. An example of the laboratory exercise on blind channels equalizations will be shown in details.