This document summarizes a lecture on transmitter design for digital communication systems. It discusses:
1) The basic components of a transmitter including constellations for linear modulation such as PAM, PSK, and QAM, and transmit filters.
2) Preliminaries on passband versus baseband transmission and how a baseband equivalent model can be obtained using complex envelope signals.
3) Details on common constellation designs including distance metrics for PAM, PSK, and QAM in an AWGN channel.
4) Analysis of bit error rate performance for the transmission of a single symbol over an AWGN channel for different constellations. The document also discusses designing transmit pulses to eliminate