Circuit Fundamentals. -- AC Circuits. -- Diode Applications. -- Semiconductor Diodes and Transistors. -- Practical Amplifier Circuits. -- Operational Amplifiers. -- Digital Electronics. -- The Digital Computer. -- Digital Systems.

CD-ROM includes: simulation software called System View (by Elanix). It also has a library of functions, a detailed manual in PDF format, tutorial examples and explanations.

For courses in Electronic Communications Technology (one or two-semester sequence), Microwave Communications, Wireless Communications, Communications Maintenance Technology, and Introduction to Telecommunications. Electronic Communications: A Systems Approach provides a comprehensive overview of wireless, wired, analog, and digital electronic communications technologies at the systems level. The authors' carefully crafted narrative structure helps readers put the many facts and concepts encountered in the study of communications technologies into a larger, coherent whole. Topics covered include modulation, communications circuits, transmitters and receivers, digital communications techniques (including digital modulation and demodulation), telephone and wired computer networks, wireless communications systems (both short range and wide area), transmission lines, wave propagation, antennas, waveguides and radar, and fiber-optic systems. The math analysis strikes a middle ground between the calculus-intensive communications texts intended for four-year BSEE programs and the math-avoidance path followed by some texts intended for two-year programs.

The renowned communications theorist Robert Gallager brings his lucid writing style to the study of the fundamental system aspects of digital communication for a one-semester course for graduate students. With the clarity and insight that have characterized his teaching and earlier textbooks, he develops a simple framework and then combines this with careful proofs to help the reader understand modern systems and simplified models in an intuitive yet precise way. A strong narrative and links between theory and practice reinforce this concise, practical presentation. The book begins with data compression for arbitrary sources. Gallager then describes how to modulate the resulting binary data for transmission over wires, cables, optical fibers, and wireless channels. Analysis and intuitive interpretations are developed for channel noise models, followed by coverage of the principles of detection, coding, and decoding. The various concepts covered are brought together in a description of wireless communication, using CDMA as a case study.

"Principles of Electronic Communication Systems" is an introductory course in communication electronics for students with a background in basic electronics. The program provides students with the current, state-of-the-art electronics techniques used in all modern forms of electronic communications, including radio, television, telephones, facsimiles, cell phones, satellites, LAN systems, digital transmission, and microwave communications. The text is readable with easy-to-understand line drawings and color photographs. The up-to-date content includes a new chapter on wireless communications systems. Various aspects of troubleshooting are discussed throughout..