Introduction to spread spectrum and modulation, the structure and operation of the different WCDMA physical channels
Transmitter hardware design, physical layer processing stages in the transmitter. Coding, interleaving, transport format combining and filtering
Transmitter RF design, structure and performance requirements for UE and Node B transmitter.
Effect of codes and filtering on the transmitter linearisation options. Power ramp and power control issues
Receiver hardware design, key symbol rate functions such as channel decoding and interleaving. Rake receiver considered in detail.
Receiver RF design, definition of Eb/No and Ec/No and relationship to receiver sensitivity and noise figure. 3GPP receiver specifications and derived RF Rx specifications. IF options, AGC and ADC considerations.
