| Instructor
| John Gill
Email: gill@ee.stanford.edu
Telephone: 650-723-4715
Office: Packard 266
Office hours: M 2:30-4:00pm, Tu 10:00-11:30am, and by appointment
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| Teaching Assistant
| Bassam El Khoury
Email: bassamk@stanford.edu
Office: Packard 104
Office hours: Tu 5:00-6:00pm, F 4:00-5:00pm
Telephone: TBA
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| Course Administrator
| Denise Murphy
Email: denise@ee.stanford.edu
Office: Packard 267
Telephone: 650-723-4731
Fax: 650-723-8473
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| Lectures
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MWF 1:15-2:05pm, Terman 156
Lectures will be broadcast live by the Stanford Instructional
Television Network (SITN) on channel E2 and will be available in
streaming video format at SCPD.
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| Review Session
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Monday 4:15-5:05pm, McCullough 115
Lectures will be broadcast live by the Stanford Instructional
Television Network (SITN) on channel E4 and will be available in
streaming video format at SCPD.
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| Textbook
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Algebraic Codes for Data Transmission,
Richard E. Blahut, Cambridge University Press, 2003
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| Homework
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Homework assignments will be handed out on Wednesdays and will be due
5pm the following Wednesday. Several homework assignments will include simple
programming problems.
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| Examinations
| Midterm examination: in class.
Closed book, except for one sheet (two sides) of notes.
Final examination: Open book, open notes.
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| Grading
| 30% Homework assignments
25% Midterm examination
45% Final examination
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| Syllabus
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Introduction to error detection and error correction
Introduction to algebra: groups, rings, finite fields, vector spaces
Linear block codes: definitions, minimum distance, bounds
Cyclic codes and linear feedback shift register circuits
BCH and Reed-Solomon codes
Burst error correcting codes and error trapping
Logic circuits for finite field arithmetic operations
Product codes; coding gain
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