
Winter Quarter 2026
EE 379A - Data Transmission Design
Lectures: SOME ARE 2024, and are gradually being updated to prior to 2026 course start
- Lecture 1, Tuesday January 6th 2026 - Intro: Data Transmission, Encoding, & Modulation
- Lecture 2, Thursday January 8th 2026 - Analysis and the (AWGN) Channel
- Lecture 3, Tuesday January 13th 2026 - Modulation Types (PAM/QAM)
- Lecture 4, Thursday January 15th 2026 -Complex and other Channels
- Lecture 5, Tuesday January 23rd 2024 - MIMO and Statistical Channels
- Lecture 6, Thursday January 25th 2024 - Coding Concepts and Dimensionality
- Lecture 7, Tuesday January 30th 2024 - Binary Codes
- Lecture 8, Thursday February 1st 2024 - Viterbi Sequence and MAP Bit Decoding
- Lecture 9, Tuesday February 6th 2024 - Concatenated and Turbo Codes
- Lecture 10, Tuesday February 13th 2024 - Constraints and LDPC Codes
- Lecture 11, Thursday February 15th 2024 - Outer Hard Code Concatenation
- Lecture 12, Tuesday February 20th 2024 - Guessing Decoders & Product Codes
- Lecture 13, Thursday February 22nd 2024 - Intersymbol Interference, MMSE, and SNR
- Lecture 14, Tuesday February 27th 2024 - Linear Equalizers
- Lecture 15, Thursday February 29th 2024 - Decision Feedback Equalizers
- Lecture 16, Tuesday March 5th 2024 - FIR Equalizer Design and Software
- Lecture 17, Thursday March 7th, 2024 - Precoders and Diversity
- Lecture 18, Tuesday March 12th, 2024 - Transmit Optimization and Waterfilling
- Lecture 19, Tuesday March 14th, 2024 - Phase Locking: Timing and Carrier Recovery
Supplementary Lectures
- Lecture S4A, Transmission-Line Channel Models
- Lecture S4A Video, Transmission-Line Channel Models
- Lecture S4B, Waveguide Channel Models
- Lecture S4B Video, Waveguide Channel Models
- Lecture S4C, Wireless Channel Models
- Lecture S4C Video, Wireless Channel Models
- Lecture S8A, Equivalent Encoders
- Lecture S8A Video, Equivalent Encoders
- Lecture S8B, Conv Code Performance Analysis
- Lecture S8B Video, Conv Code Performance Analysis
- Lecture S9A, Galois Fields and Arithmetic
- Lecture S9A Video, Galois Fields and Arithmetic
- Lecture S9B, BCH Decoders
- Lecture S9B Video, BCH Decoders
- Lecture S9C, Reed Muller ML Decoders
- Lecture S9C Video, Reed Muller ML Decoders
Please send any typos or suggestions to cioffi@stanford.edu.