Getting Started

    Preface
        What Is the Communications Toolbox?
        Related Products
        Using This Guide
            Expected Background
            Supplementing This Guide with Command-Line Help

        Configuration Information
        Technical Conventions
            Polynomials as Vectors
            Matrices

        Typographical Conventions

    Getting Started with the Communications Toolbox
        A Detailed Example
            What the Example Does
            Where to Find the Example
            How the Example Works
            Output from the Example

Using the Communications Toolbox

    Random Signals and Error Analysis
        Error Analysis Features of the Toolbox
        Random Signals
        Error Rates
        Eye Diagrams
        Scatter Plots

    Source Coding
        Source Coding Features of the Toolbox
        Representing Quantization Parameters
        Quantizing a Signal
        Optimizing Quantization Parameters
        Implementing Differential Pulse Code Modulation
        Optimizing DPCM Parameters
        Companding a Signal
        Selected Bibliography for Source Coding

    Block Coding
        Block Coding Features of the Toolbox
        Block Coding Terminology
        Representing Messages and Codewords
        Representing Block Coding Parameters
        Creating and Decoding Block Codes
        Performing Other Block Code Tasks
        Selected Bibliography for Block Coding

    Convolutional Coding
        Convolutional Coding Features of the Toolbox
        Polynomial Description of a Convolutional Encoder
        Trellis Description of a Convolutional Encoder
        Creating and Decoding Convolutional Codes
        Examples of Convolutional Coding
        Selected Bibliography for Convolutional Coding

    Modulation
        Modulation Features of the Toolbox
        Modulation Terminology
        Representing Analog Signals
        Simple Analog Modulation Example
        Other Options in Analog Modulation
        Filter Design Issues
        Digital Modulation Overview
        Representing Digital Signals
        Significance of Sampling Rates
        Representing Signal Constellations
        Simple Digital Modulation Example
        Customizing the Modulation Process
        Other Options in Digital Modulation
        Selected Bibliography for Modulation

    Special Filters
        Special Filter Features of the Toolbox
        Noncausality and the Group Delay Parameter
        Designing Hilbert Transform Filters
        Filtering with Raised Cosine Filters
        Designing Raised Cosine Filters
        Selected Bibliography for Special Filters

    Galois Field Computations
        Galois Field Features of the Toolbox
        Galois Field Terminology
        Representing Elements of Galois Fields
        Default Primitive Polynomials
        Converting and Simplifying Element Formats
        Arithmetic in Galois Fields
        Polynomials over Prime Fields
        Other Galois Field Functions
        Selected Bibliography for Galois Fields

    Index of Examples

Reference

    Functions by Category
    Alphabetical List of Functions
        ademod
        ademodce
        amod
        amodce
        apkconst
        awgn
        bchdeco
        bchenco
        bchpoly
        bi2de
        biterr
        compand
        convenc
        cyclgen
        cyclpoly
        ddemod
        ddemodce
        de2bi
        decode
        demodmap
        dmod
        dmodce
        dpcmdeco
        dpcmenco
        dpcmopt
        encode
        eyediagram
        gen2par
        gfadd
        gfconv
        gfcosets
        gfdeconv
        gfdiv
        gffilter
        gflineq
        gfminpol
        gfmul
        gfplus
        gfpretty
        gfprimck
        gfprimdf
        gfprimfd
        gfrank
        gfrepcov
        gfroots
        gfsub
        gftrunc
        gftuple
        gfweight
        hammgen
        hank2sys
        hilbiir
        istrellis
        lloyds
        marcumq
        modmap
        oct2dec
        poly2trellis
        qaskdeco
        qaskenco
        quantiz
        randerr
        randint
        randsrc
        rcosfir
        rcosflt
        rcosiir
        rcosine
        rsdeco
        rsdecode
        rsdecof
        rsenco
        rsencode
        rsencof
        rspoly
        scatterplot
        symerr
        syndtable
        vec2mat
        vitdec
        wgn

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