ECE 611Digital Communications
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Engineering
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
Representation of bandpass signals and systems, modulation and demodulation for the additive white Gaussian noise channel, optimal demodulation for signals with random phase, noncoherent detection for binary and M-ary orthogonal signals, hard and soft decision decoding for linear codes, concatenated codes, performance of coded modulation systems, characterization of fading multipath channels, diversity techniques, performance of coded systems on fading channels, direct sequence and frequency hopped spread spectrum systems.
Prerequisites
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
4 posts and comments in 4 threads mention ECE 611, December 2011 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Fall 2017
Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments
“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”
u/Jackhofmann: “PSYCH 483 PSYCH 484 PSYCH 485 PSYCH 486 PSYCH 490R PSYCH 499A PSYCH 499B PSYCH 499C PSYCH 621 PSYCH 630 PSYCH 677A PSYCH 704A PSYCH 704B PSYCH 707 PSYCH 710 PSYCH 714 PSYCH 717 PSYCH 720A PSYCH 721A …”
u/Jackhofmann: “… ECE 400A ECE 400B ECE 451 ECE 484 ECE 498A ECE 498B ECE 499 ECE 600 ECE 601 ECE 604 ECE 606 ECE 611 ECE 613 ECE 614 ECE 621 ECE 630 ECE 633 ECE 635 ECE 636 ECE 637 ECE 639 ECE 650 ECE 651 ECE 658 ECE 6604PD ECE 6610PD ECE 6616PD ECE 662 ECE 664 ECE 667 ECE 671 ECE 675 ECE 682 …”
Fall 2015
Fall 2015 Final Exam Schedule 23 points, 20 comments
u/Jyan: “Does anyone have word on when graduate classes will be posted? Do they get scheduled later or elsewhere or something?”
u/Jyan: “Mine are not - ECE 604 & ECE 611.”
Spring 2015
Free Talk Friday 16 points, 76 comments
“Welcome to Free Talk Friday, where you are able to talk about whatever you want. Please keep it respectful and remember that subreddit rules still apply.”
u/Jyan: “Incomming graduate student in ECE. Supervisor is Sherman Shen, anyone know him? My classes (ECE611 & ECE604) intimidate me :|”
Fall 2011
What's your most/least favourite course? 12 points, 77 comments
“Favourite: Algebra. MATH 135. Least Favourite: Linear Algebra. MATH 136. Frigging hate matrices. Tell us what your favourite/least favourite courses are and why! …”
u/IM_OSCAR_dot_com: “Yay: ECE 611 (Digital Communications) It was ... easy without being too easy? I found all the concepts pretty intuitive but the course had enough depth to be challenging. Nay: ECE 675 (Radiation and Propagation of EM Fields) Hope you like vector calculus, bitches. …”
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