ECE-S 431

    DREXEL UNIVERSITY

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Fall Quarter 2000
     

    INSTRUCTOR:
    Prof. Athina Petropulu, Rm. 7-221, Tel. x2358, e-mail: athina@artemis.ece.drexel.edu
    Office Hours: Wed. 1-2 pm, Mon. 5-6 pm , or by appointment

    TEACHING ASSISTANT:
    Binning Chen, Rm. 7-707, Tel. x2066, e-mail: chen@iason.ece.drexel.edu
    Office Hours: FRI. noon-2 pm, or by appointment

    CLASS SCHEDULE:
    Lectures: MO,WE 2-3pm Rm 2-120, REC FRI 2-3 Rm 7-403 LAB: FRI 3-5pm Rm 7-403

    COURSE OBJECTIVE:
    The goal of Signal Processing (SP) is to extract information carried by signals such as images, speech, video, man-made signals, etc. SP is probably the most interdisciplinary subject of Electrical Engineering, with numerous applications in every field of engineering or science.

    The course will provide the basic principles of Digital SP and establish links between theory and real world applications. The laboratory time will be used to illustrate the theoretical concepts through a set a Matlab-based experiments.

    PREREQUISITE: Basic knowledge of Linear Systems and Transform theory

    TEXTBOOK:
    Digital Signal Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications, third edition, J.G. Proakis and D.G. Manolakis, Prentice Hall, 1996.

    REFERENCES:
    DSP First: A Multimedia Approach, J.H. McClellan, R.W. Schafer and M.A. Yoder, Prentice Hall, 1998.
    Discrete Time Signal Processing, A.V. Oppenheim and R.W. Schafer, Prentice Hall, 1989.

    GRADING POLICY:
    There will be two exams, a midterm and a comprehensive final exam. The midterm will be held on Monday November 6, 2000, during normal class time, and the final exam will be held during final exams week.

    Midterm grades may be disputed up to two weeks after the exams are returned, after that, the grades are final. There will be no make up exams. Exam missed without formal excuse counts as zero.

    Homework will be assigned periodically and will be graded. Solutions will be provided on the due date.

    2-3 computer projects will also be assigned. The problem statement and hints will be discussed during lab time; each project will be given one week to be completed.

    The final grade will be computed according to the formula:

    max{1/2(final)+1/2(midterm), 2/3(final)+1/3(midterm), 1/2(projects)+1/4(midterm), +1/4(final)}


    Borderline grade cases will be resolved based on the homework grade.

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE

    • Discrete Signals and Sampling
      Discrete/Continuous-Analog/Digital, Sampled Analog Signals
    • Discrete Time Systems
      Classification, Impulse Response and Convolution
    • Z-Transform (ZT)
      Definition, Properties, Computation
    • Frequency Analysis of Signals and Systems
      Fourier Transform of Discrete Time Signals, Sampling in Frequency Domain, DFT - Properties, FFT
    • Implementation of Discrete-Time Systems
      Structures for FIR Systems, Structures for IIR Systems), Quantization of filter coefficients, Round-off effects
    • Design of Digital Filters
      FIR Systems, IIR Systems