Objective: Build an AM system to review basic concepts in Simulink.

• Building a simple AM model in Simulink
• Creating a subsystem
• Visualizing a signal in the time and frequency domains
• Working with MATLAB data
• Simulating the model from the command line

Objective: Build an end-to-end QPSK model using Communications System Toolbox and become familiar with the different visualization tools within the toolbox.

• Exploring Communications System Toolbox
• Creating a QPSK transmitter model
• Generating a random source
• Using frame-based processing
• Visualizing with scatter plots and eye diagrams
• Creating a QPSK receiver model
• Calculating error rate statistics

Objective: Analyze the BER performance of an end-to-end communication system by writing a MATLAB script and using BERTool.

• Computing the BER curve
• Automating performance analysis: scripts
• Adding channel coding
• Using BERTool for performance analysis

Objective: Add channel impairments and recovery blocks to test receiver performance.

• Adding phase and frequency offset
• Correcting phase and frequency using DQPSK
• Adding timing offset
• Correcting for timing offset
• Modeling multi-path channel impairments
• Using MATLAB code in the model for equalization