If you've ever considered yourself to be a little fuzzy on the details, or even if you 're a complete technical illiterate, this is the book for you. This revised and updated version of the bestselling first edition covers all of the basic technological concepts you need to understand the principles behind modern communications systems. The book features an innovative modular approach so that as you gain familiarity with the technical principles at circuit, component, and device levels, you can readily grasp systems-level concepts. With 196 pages of crystal-clear illustrations.
Signals and Spectra. Electricity. System Elements. Modulation. Digital Signals. Computers and Data Communication. Appendix AAnswers to Problems. Appendix BReview of Basic Mathematics.
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A. Michael Noll
A. Michael Noll is a professor and former dean at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Professor Noll is also a senior affiliated research fellow and director of technology at the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information at Columbia University and has authored eight other books about communication technologies and strategic critical business analysis. He holds an M.E.E. from New York University and a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.