Circuit Building Blocks for Communication Systems (CBBC)

Course developed by: Klaus Hofmann, Integrated Electronic Systems (IES), TU Darmstadt
Contact: klaus.hofmannnoSpam@ies.tu-darmstadt.de

Course Description

Methods and Algorithms for the Circuit Implementations in communication systems. This fully digitalized module consists of a lecture and an exercise part. 

Learning Objectives

A student is, after successful completion of this module, able to understand

• The essential circuit building blocks of a communication system and able to describe them on transistor level
• Protocols and hardware-implementations of high-speed bus-systems
• Clock/data recovery techniques (DLL, PLL, Timing Recovery)
• Aspects of error-detection and – avoidance.