Digital Communication Systems Using SystemVue

SystemVue (Formerly SystemView) by Agilent is a communication systems simulator with advanced capabilities for design, analysis, and implementation in DSP processors and in HDL. Digital Communication Systems Using SystemVue servers as an introduction to simulation for undergraduate students in a contemporary course, where it provides the opportunity to go beyond the lecture or the hardware laboratory. Graduate students in a rigorous first course will find the SystemVue simulation environment an adjunct to their understanding of the concepts of digital communication systems, facilitating their projects and theses. Professionals, once having had a course primarily in analog communications, will be able to acquaint themselves with modern digital communications in the SystemVue simulation environment. An extensive discussion of the precepts of digital communications is coupled with simulation models and observed results. With clear and concise descriptions this is an essential guide for anyone wishing to understand digital communication systems through simulations using SystemVue.

• A complete description of the Agilent SystemVue simulation environment suitable for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals
• Describes the analysis and design of modern digital communication systems with noise and non-linearities using simulation models without analytical equations
• Simulation results are used to illustrate and validate the concepts of digital communications with the complete development of the correlation receiver in AWGN and the power spectral density and bandwidth of modulated signals
• Provides a translation of digital communication system block diagrams to the SystemVue simulation environment with a complete description of the parameters
• Facilitates the what-ifs of digital communication system design by rapidly changing simulation parameters
• Includes a CD-ROM of the simulation models, audio .wav files, and the Agilent SystemVue Textbook Edition software
• On the CD-ROM The CD-ROM contains the SystemVue Textbook Edition application software from the Agilent that executes the simulation models in the text. The CD-ROM autoplays and installs the SystemVue Textbook Edition application software and the simulation models for each of the six chapters in individual folders under the Examples folder. The simulation models are referenced by figure numbers noted in the text.
• System Requirements Communication systems simulations require large amounts of RAM and adequate processor speeds. Minimum requirements are a Pentium III 1 GHz processor with at least 256MB of RAM and the Windows 2000 or the Windows XP operating system. Available hard drive storage requirements for the CD-ROM are approximately 50MB, which includes the online SystemVue Help facility with the manuals and the SystemVue simulation models in the text.