Digital Communications: Design for the Real World

Digital Communications: Design for the Real World introduces readers to the fundamentals of digital communications through an applications-driven approach.

Devised specifically to serve as a first stage text for undergraduate students, this textbook + CD package relates theory to real-world products and emphasizes the design choices facing professional communications engineers, thereby bringing this exciting subject vividly to life. Students encountering communications topics for the first time, practising engineers and managers will all appreciate the stimulating and motivational treatment of the subject.

Andy Bateman is a leading authority in this field. Until recently he was Professor of Signal Processing at the University of Bristol and is he now a Director of Wireless Systems International Ltd. The book is based on his undergraduate teaching at Bristol and his training courses for professionals. He has extensive practical experience in the `real-world' having performed consultancies with organisations such as the Canadian Department of Communications, Renishaw UK, British Telecom, Australia Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Plessey Avionics, Bell Operating Company USA, Nokia Mobile Communications, and Uniden Japan. He has published eighty papers and has registered thirteen patents.