The goal of this course is to teach students the fundamentals of transceiver architecture including analog hardware, digital processing, and software. Students will learn the components of an end-to-end wireless communication system including amplifiers, mixers, AGCs, up and down-conversion, pulse shaping, synchronization, modulation, channel equalization, carrier recovery, etc. 

The course also covers techniques used in the latest communication systems like 5G, WiFi 6, and IoT. These include OFDM, MIMO, Multi-user MIMO, Beamforming, Millimeter Wave, OFDMA, Backscatter communication, Spread Spectrum Communication, Bluetooth, LoRA, etc. The course combines core mathematical principles with practical system design.