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ECE121 - Signals Spectra and Signal Processing: 1-Introduction

This document provides an overview of the course ECE121 - Signals Spectra and Signal Processing. The course serves as an introduction to signals, spectra, and signal processing which are important for understanding digital signal processing. It covers topics like classification of signals, sampling theorem, convolution, z-transforms, Fourier transforms, and filtering. The course is divided into two parts, with the first part covering continuous time signals, Fourier series, and Fourier transforms over the first four weeks, including two quizzes and an exam. Grading is based on seatwork, assignments, quizzes, exams, and a final exam.

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ECE121 - Signals Spectra and Signal Processing: 1-Introduction

This document provides an overview of the course ECE121 - Signals Spectra and Signal Processing. The course serves as an introduction to signals, spectra, and signal processing which are important for understanding digital signal processing. It covers topics like classification of signals, sampling theorem, convolution, z-transforms, Fourier transforms, and filtering. The course is divided into two parts, with the first part covering continuous time signals, Fourier series, and Fourier transforms over the first four weeks, including two quizzes and an exam. Grading is based on seatwork, assignments, quizzes, exams, and a final exam.

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ECE121 - Signals Spectra

and Signal Processing


1-Introduction
Signals and Systems and Digital
Technology
In modern world, signals of all kinds
emanate from different types of
devices
Radios and TVs
Cell phones
Global positioning systems (GPS)
Radars
sonars
These systems allow us to communicate messages,
control processes, and to sense or measure signals.

The trend has been toward digital representation and
processing of data, most of which are in analog form.

This trend highlights the importance of learning how to
represent signals in analog as well as in digital forms and
how to model and design systems capable of dealing with
different types of signals.
Advances in digital electronics and in computer
engineering in the past 70 years have permitted the
proliferation of digital technologies.

Digital hardware and software process signals from cell
phones, high-definition television (HDTV) receivers.

The use of digital signal processors (DSPs) and more
recently of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have
been replacing the use of application-specific integrated
circuits (ASIC) in industrial, medical, and military
applications.
Today, digital transmission of voice, data, and video is
common, and so is computer control.

The abundance of algorithms for processing signals, and
the pervasive presence of DSPs and FPGAs in thousands
of applications make digital signal processing theory a
necessary tool not only for engineers but for anybody who
would be dealing with digital data.

This course serves as an introduction to the theory of
signals, spectra and signal processing a necessary first
step in the road toward understanding digital signal
processing.
COURSE OUTLINE
1. Classification and Characteristics of signals
2. Sampling theorem and Aliasing
3. Convolution and correlation
4. Z transforms
5. Pole-zero-gain filters
6. Fourier transforms
7. Filtering
8. Difference equations for FIR and IIR filters
9. FIR/IIR
LE1
LE2
LE3
COURSE OUTLINE
PART 1 week 1 to 4
Continuous time signals and system
Fourier Series
Quiz 1

Fourier Transform
Quiz 2
Exam 1
REFERENCES
Signals, Systems, and Transforms
4
th
Ed, by Charles L. Phillips, John M.
Parr, Eve A. Raskin

GRADING
10% - Seatwork and assignments
20% - Quizzes
30% - Exams
40% - Final Exam
END

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