Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Course Overview

Basics of software-defined Radios and Practical Applications is a 4 weeks programme that is a joint initiative of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. This course offers an electronic copy of the certificate for its participants. The course teaches that SDR is a very important part of modern communication where processes used for hardware implementation are defined using the domain of software regarding flexibility.

Basics of software-defined Radios and Practical Applications training are used for providing the description of the several components of software-defined radios along with their significance, and relevance. The participants shall also understand the interrelationship between digital, and analog power processing and spectrum transmission of signals. At the final stage of this course, candidates will understand what kind of term solutions are used for industrial datasheets, and the motivation for appropriate transceiver design.

The Highlights

4 weeks programme
Online classes held
The course type is elective
IIT Roorkee faculty
Completion certificate

Programme Offerings

4 Weeks Course
Online Course
completion certificate
Credit Points
free course
assignments
Final Exam

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 1000	yes	IIT Roorkee

Basics of software-defined Radios and Practical Applications certification fee by NPTEL, and IIT Roorkee, is free. Additionally by depositing only Rs. 1000 which is the exam fee, and attending it, the candidates will obtain a certificate of completion.

Basics of software-defined Radios and Practical Applications Fee Structure

Description	Amount
Programme Fee	Free

Eligibility Criteria

Educational Qualification

Any undergraduate or postgraduate students may be desirable for this course. Also not a requirement, but someone with an electrical engineering education background may be preferred over others

Certification Qualifying Details

Basics of software-defined Radios and Practical Applications certification by NPTEL and IIT Roorkee is for participants getting 30/75 in the final examination, and an average mark of 10/25 in the assignments, so that the sum total comes to 40/100.

What you will learn

Knowledge of engineering

The Basics of software-defined Radios and Practical Applications certification syllabus has concepts like software-defined radios, their architectures, transmitted signals, power amplifiers, techniques of SDR, liner, non-linear distortion, and many more.

Who it is for

An interest in radios, and practical applications, and any engineering bachelor, or masters degree will be ideal candidates for this course. So, in total the course is targeted towards the people who are engineers.

Admission Details

Here are the steps for the Basics of software-defined Radios and Practical Applications course admission process:

Step 1: Follow the official website of Swayam: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_ee95/preview.

Step 2: Then participants must freshly register or use an old account for accessing Swayam.

Step 3: Then the course starts when login is successful.

Step 4: Additionally for certification, an exam fee is to be paid along with filling the registration form.

Application Details

Only registering will provide the course access but for certification, an online filled-in registration form must be submitted which gets available for the students when it gets published by Swayam.

The Syllabus

Basic components of software-defined radios
Software-defined radio architectures-Part A
Software-defined radio architectures- Part B

Distortion parameters-Sources and metrics of distortion in a transceiver
Nonlinear distortion and nonlinearity specifications
Power amplifiers: Nonlinear Distortion in Transmitted Signals

Power amplifier Line-up for linearity & power requirement calculations
Linearization Techniques for nonlinear distortion in SDR
Predistortion Techniques for nonlinear distortion in SDR

Digital Predistortion Techniques for Linear/Nonlinear Distortion

Evaluation process

For the final certificate, candidates have to undergo both assignments and an end examination. The end examination is for a total of 75 marks in which the participants shall have to earn 30 marks. Whereas the number of assignments held is 4, and in 3 the average marks attained should be 10 out of a total of 25. Finally, the total marks attained must come to 40 out of 100.