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Course Information for Students

COURSE GENERAL INFORMATION

Course Title: Digital Signal Processing

Course Code : ELCE 401

Course Instructor: Dr Andrzej
SLUZEK


Room No
H 309 H


Sunday, 14-16
Consultation Hours
Monday, 14-16
Thursday, 14-16


Loading: 3(THREE) Credits
3(THREE) Lectures NIL Laboratory Sessions

Prerequisite(-s):
Co-requisite(-s)
ELCE 301
ELCE 402 (recommended)


Course Catalog description:
Basic Concepts: Sampling, Aliasing, Quantization. Digital
Filters: Design and Analysis of FIR and IIR Filters, Complex
Filters, State Space Representation, Adaptive Filters, Optimal
Filters, Non- Linear Filters. Fourier Analysis and Processing:
DFT, FFT, DCT, Spectral Analysis, FFT Processing, Signal
Segmentation. DSP Implementation: Coefficients Truncation,
Integer and Floating Point DSP Systems, DSP Chips. DSP
Applications.


Course Learning Outcomes :

1. Understand the concepts of time and frequency domain
analysis of digital filters.
2. Understands the concepts of z-plane poles and zeros and
their effects on the stability of digital filters.
3. Design digital FIR and IIR filters using software
packages.
4. Understand the transient effects on IIR filters.
5. Understands the concepts of complex digital filters.
6. Use state space approach for analyzing digital filters.
7. Understands the concepts of adaptive filters.
8. Understand the concepts of FFT and DCT of one-
dimensional signals.
9. Design algorithms for FFT processing of one-
dimensional signals.
10. Appreciate hardware issues for implementing digital
signal processing algorithms.

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11. Appreciate audio, image and communication
applications of DSP.


Instructional materials:

Text Book
Reference Materials
S.K. Mitra, Digital Signal Processing: A Computer Based
Approach, McGraw-Hill, 4th Edition, 2011.
Textbook:

J.H. McClellan, R.W. Schafer and M.A. Yoder, DSP First:
A Multimedia Approach, Prentice Hall, 2003
Reference materials:
E.C. Ifeachor and B.W. Jervis, Digital Signal Processing,
A Practical Approach, Prentice Hall, 2
nd
Edition, 2001.

Methods of Assessment:



Semester Examinations : 30 %
Assignment(-s) : 30 %
Two assignments consist of homework questions and a
subsequent short quiz.
The third assignment is essay-style.
Final Examination : 40 %



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TEACHING PLAN
(Include assignment name(s) and hand in date.)
Week No Contents
Week 1 (24-28 Aug)
*24 Aug Fall Classes begin
* 28 Aug End of add/drop Period
Introduction: characterization and classification of signals,
typical signal processing applications, why digital signal
processing? (1 lecture)
Discrete-time signals in the time domain: sampling of
continuous-time signals, random and deterministic signals,
properties and classification; basic operations on sequences,
finite-length sequences. (2 lectures)
Week 2 (31 Aug - 4 Sep)
*I Make Up for Sp. 2014

Discrete-time signals in the frequency domain: sinusoidal
signal decomposition, the discrete-time Fourier transform
(DTFT), properties; energy density spectrum; Sampling and
reconstruction, spectral aliasing, sample-and-hold operation.
(3 lectures)
Week 3 (7-11 Sep)

Discrete-time (linear) systems: LTI systems, impulse
response, convolution sum; time-domain characterization of
LTI systems transform, difference equation, FIR and IIR LTI
systems; frequency-domain LTI representation, filtering. (5
lectures).
Week 4 (14 -18 Sep)
*Census Report

Continuation of Week 3.
Week 5 (21-25 Sep)

z-Transform: rational z-Transform, region of convergence;
pole-zero diagram, stability, causality; z-Transform
properties; the transfer function, all-pass and minimum-phase
systems. (5 lectures)
HOMEWORK 1 (hand in date: TWO weeks later)
Week 6 (28 Sep 2 Oct)

Continuation of Week 5
5-9 October
**5-7 Eid Al-Adha

Week 7 (12-16 Oct)

Digital filter structures: basic structures: direct, cascade,
and parallel form; lattice filters, FIR, all-pole lattice systems;
finite-precision numerical effects, implementation in DSP
systems. (5 lectures).
Week 8 (19-23 Oct)

Continuation of Week 7.
MID-TERM EXAM
Week 9 (26-30 Oct)

Filter design techniques: Butterworth, etc. filters; filter
design by windowing. (4 lectures)
HOMEWORK2 (hand in date: TWO weeks later)
Week 10 (2-6 Nov)
*6 Nov-Last Day to Drop w/ W
The discrete Fourier transform (DFT): Fourier series (DFS)
of periodic sequences; finite-duration sequences, DFT
properties, linear convolution; the discrete cosine transform
(DCT) (5 lectures)
Week 11 (9-13 Nov)

Continuation of Week 10.
Week 12 (16-20 Nov)

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms: DFT and its direct
evaluation; decimation-in-time/frequency FFT algorithms. (3

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lectures)
Week 13 (23-27 Nov)

DFT Fourier analysis and processing: DFT analysis, the
periodogram, windowing, properties of windows, spectral
resolution; DFT-based linear filtering, overlap-add (OLA)
method; filterbanks, multirate signal processing, decimation
and interpolation. (6 lectures)
HOMEWORK 3 (hand in date: THREE weeks later)
Week 14 (30 Nov-4 Dec)
*2-3 Dec-National Day Holiday
Continuation of Week 13.
Week 15 (7 Dec-11 Dec)
*11 Dec Last Day of Classes
*13-20 Dec Final Exams
Selected applications: for example: time-series prediction,
all-pole modeling of signals, linear prediction; Yule-Walker
equations; linear system identification, LMS algorithm,
noise/echo cancellation, channel equalization (3 lectures).
Revision.
21 Dec-3 Jan

Winter Break

** Subject to change depending on moon sighting
*6 J an -Spring Classes begin