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Dr. Bernard Sklar has over 40 years of experience in technical design and management positions at Republic Aviation
Corporation, Hughes Aircraft, Litton Industries, and The Aerospace Corporation. At Aerospace, he helped develop the
MILSTAR satellite system, and was the principal architect for EHF Satellite Data Link Standards. Currently, he is head of
advanced systems at Communications Engineering Services, a consulting company he founded in 1984. He has taught
engineering courses at several universities, including the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern
California. He has also presented numerous digital communications training programs to industry throughout the world.
Dr Sklar has published and presented scores of technical papers. He is the recipient of the 1984 Prize Paper Award from the
IEEE Communications Society for his tutorial series on digital communications. He is past Chair of the Los Angeles Council
IEEE Education Committee. His academic credentials include a B.S. degree in Math and Science from the University of
Michigan, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, and a Ph.D. degree
in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He can be reached via email at: bsklar@ieee.org

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Dr Bob Stewart has been faculty in the Department
of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the
University of Strathclyde, UK, since 1990. Since
1997 he has also been a part-time Visiting Professor
at the University of California, Los Angeles
Extension School where he presents short courses
on digital signal processing.
Dr Stewarts research interests are in digital communications, 3G and
adaptive signal processing. Over the last 10 years Dr Stewart has
published one book, two CDs, and authored more than 120 journal,
conference and book chapter papers. He has presented many DSP
and communication short courses to industry in both Europe and the
USA. Dr Stewart is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the IEEE, the
IEE, and an officer of the European Association of Signal Processing.
Email: bob@dspedia.com.

Dr Maurice Schiff has 30 years experience in the areas of

digital communications and spread spectrum systems. He
is Vice President and Chief Scientist at ELANIX, Inc.,
where he is responsible for the technical specifications of
the company's products.
Dr. Schiff has worked extensively on spread
spectrum systems, and a variety of military data
links and DSP systems. He is a joint patent
holder on the synchronization system of the SINCGARS
tactical VHF-FM frequency-hopping communication
system. Dr Schiff has presented many short courses
on digital communications and is he is also part
time faculty at California State University,
Northridge.
Email: maury@elanix.com.
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PDF Format: This document is presented in Adobe Acrobat 4.0 PDF
(portable document format). If you have concerns about how to work
with PDF and/or navigate this document then refer to the Acrobat
menu above, or visit http://www.adobe.com
Hyperlinks: In the Getting Started and the Book Exercises manuals
all SystemView files are hyperlinked. Therefore as you read the onscreen PDF documents you can mouse-click to the exercises in
c:\Program Files\SystemView\Digital Comm (this is the default
install directory; if you installed to a non-default location then this
pathname will of course be different).
Printable Versions: The documents have a US Letter sized (11 x 8
inches) printable version available. The printer icon
on the first
page of each of the three CD manuals hyperlinks to the printable
versions.

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Your License: If you are the owner of the Digital Communications:

Fundamentals and Applications (2nd Edition) textbook by Bernard
Sklar and published by Prentice Hall then you are licensed to print
one copy of each of the three printable files for personal use.
For full and detailed information on proper use and licensing of this
document please view Readme.txt & License.txt files.

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Acknowledgments

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The authors of this Companion CD would like to thank Dr Patrick
Ready, Igor Koyfman, Stephen Kratzet, Michael Farris and Victoria
Becker at Elanix Inc., specifically for their efforts in developing the new
Student Version of SystemView and for their excellent and professional
support at all stages in the CD content production.

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We also thank Daniel Garca-Als, Garrey Rice, Graham Freeland,

John Quayle, Eugen Pfann, and Iain Stirling at the University of
Strathclyde and Stephan Weiss at the University of Southampton, for
their considerable input to the overall CD production and testing.
We would also like acknowledge the contribution of Dr Bill Goodin for
his excellent management of the various DSP and Communications
Short Course programs at University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA) Extension School. It was from the courses taught by the
authors at UCLA that the idea for this CD began to evolve.

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Finally we acknowledge the assistance and help from the textbook

publisher Prentice Hall and the DSP engineers at Entegra Ltd (UK).
We hope you enjoy using this CD and the SystemView software. From
our experience of university and industry short course presentation we
are quite sure that it will enhance your learning, understanding, and
engineering knowledge of modern digital communications.
Bernard Sklar, Robert W. Stewart, Maurice L. Schiff
December 2000
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