This course covers the important aspects of power electronic circuits, components and design. Topics include device characteristics, heat dissipation, failure modes and discrete transistor circuits. Power magnetic devices, motors and transformers, are examined, together with their associated drive circuitry and snubbers. Techniques for designing DC-power supplies, static power inverters and universal power supplies, DC-DC converters, and switch-mode power supplies are discussed. The course gives an introduction to power systems analysis and techniques.

Knowledge Base:
Having successfully completed this course, students should be able to:

• understand the cellular radio concepts such as frequency reuse, handoff and how interference between mobiles and base stations affects the capacity of cellular systems.
• describe current and future cellular mobile communication systems (GSM, IS95, WCDMA, etc)
• understand the principles of cooperative communications and describe their advantages and design issues.
• identify the techno-political aspects of wireless and mobile communications such as the allocation of the limited wireless spectrum by government regulatory agencies.
• understand propagation effects such as fading, time delay spread, and Doppler spread, and describe how to measure and model the impact that signal bandwidth and motion have on the instantaneous received signal through the multipath channel.
• understand the information theoretical aspects (such as the capacity) of wireless channels
• describe and evaluate receiver and transmitter diversity techniques
• understand multiple-antenna systems such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and space-time codes
• understand basic equalization schemes commonly used in mobile wireless systems
• understand basic spread spectrum techniques in mobile wireless systems
• understand the concept of orthogonal frequency division modulation techniques

Assignments, Presentation including tutorial attendance (19%); Laboratories (26%); Mid-Semester Quiz (10%); Final Exam (45%)

ENGN3226

• Main: A.J. Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2005. 
• Suggested: T.S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Theory and Practice, Prentice Hall, Second Edition, 2002

Course page http://eng.anu.edu.au/study/currentstudents/courses