The department of Telecommunication engineering and PG studies has started a M.Tech. Program in “Digital Communication”, from the academic year 2004 – 05.

Specialization in the field of Digital Communication will provide the candidates with a wide variety of opportunities, both in the Industry as well as in the R & D fields.

They can work in areas dealing with Satellite Communications, Mobile and Wireless Communications, Optical Fiber Communications, Microwave and Antenna designs , Real time and Embedded System designs, Advanced Digital Signal processing and Image processing fields, etc.

The curriculum offers the following courses as core subjects

• ANTENNA THEORY AND DESIGN
  
• STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
  
• ADVANCED DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
  
• WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
  
• MULTIRATE SYSTEMS AND FILTER BANKS
  
• WIRELESS AND ATM NETWORKS

The electives offered are

• OPTICAL COMMUNICATION & NETWORKING
  
• IMAGE & VIDEO PROCESSING
  
• MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
  
• DIGITAL SWITCHING SYSTEMS
  
• DIGITAL SIGNAL COMPRESSION
  
• LINEAR ALGEBRA
  
• SATELLITE COMMUNICATION
  
• ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKS
  
• DETECTION & ESTIMATION
  
• ERROR CONTROL CODING
  
• CRYPTOGRAPHY & NETWORK SECURITY
  
• PATTERN RECOGNITION
  
• SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING
  
• REALTIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
  
• RADAR SYSTEMS
  
• RF AND MICROWAVE CIRCUIT DESIGN

In addition the curriculum also offers Industrial training and Project works.

The department provides two well equipped laboratories and a Seminar hall for the PG students.

PG. Lab I ( VLSI & Image processing Lab) - consisting of P-IV Computers , Mat lab with Image Processing Tool Box (05 Users), Virtual Instrumentation Kits and Software And

PG Lab II ( Advanced Digital communication Lab) - consisting of - Spectrum Analyzers,

Digital CROs , Function Generators , AM/FM Generators , Microwave Gunn and Klystron setups.

In addition , the department has good Industry support from ISRO, DRDO laboratories, ALTERA, Texas instruments, HP etc.

The department has dedicated and qualified faculty to support the PG program.

The faculty in-charge of PG Program are

Dr. A.G. Ananth,Professor
Sri. G.Sadashivappa, Assistant Professor and HoD(I/C).
Sri. P. Nagaraju, Assistant Professor