Editing Comms IV Assignment C (section)

==Expectations==

* The emphasis in this assignment is to attempt a system design and only requires simple use of Matlab for plotting graphs to explore trade-offs.  

* Obviously a system design with a clear power and bandwidth budget, with power and bandwidth margin, will attract marks. But at the end of the day, I’m looking for a well structured methodology and evidence that you had an exploratory attitude to the problem. I don’t want to just see a neat solution; I want to see you take “ownership” of the assignment by describing your exploratory steps to arriving at your final design. For example, you may want make various Matlab plots to illustrate trade-offs and you may want to plot relevant formulas and functions to test how they behave. You are encouraged to put your investigations and “sanity check” plots into your report to show you really owned this assignment.

* It is expected the methodology is structured so that you don't end up with an overdesigned system. It is possible to meet the specifications by using the most expensive components. But a boss in a company would not like that.  Start with low specified components and work your way up in a structured way to meet the specifications.

* Meeting the specification by using component values that are so good that they don't even exist is cheating! Remember to find actual values.

* You may use component specifications from online data sheets, the course text book, or an other text book in the library. You are expected to state the source of the parameters you use.

* If you mess up the assignment it is still possible to get reasonable marks, if you diligently show the steps you took to gain ownership and the steps you took to explore the problem space.