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En3550 Introduction

This document provides an introduction and overview of the EN3550 – Digital Signal Processing course taught at the University of Moratuwa. It outlines the course objectives which include studying discrete time signals and systems, digital filter design techniques, and digital signal processors. The course aims to help students understand and apply fundamental DSP concepts. It will be taught by Dr. Ajith Pasqual and Dr. Ranga Rodrigo, and students will be evaluated based on examinations, individual assignments, group projects, and class participation. The group projects will involve implementing DSP applications on a development board.

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En3550 Introduction

This document provides an introduction and overview of the EN3550 – Digital Signal Processing course taught at the University of Moratuwa. It outlines the course objectives which include studying discrete time signals and systems, digital filter design techniques, and digital signal processors. The course aims to help students understand and apply fundamental DSP concepts. It will be taught by Dr. Ajith Pasqual and Dr. Ranga Rodrigo, and students will be evaluated based on examinations, individual assignments, group projects, and class participation. The group projects will involve implementing DSP applications on a development board.

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EN3550 – Digital Signal 

Processing 

Introduction to the Course

Dr. Ajith Pasqual
[email protected]

Dept. of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
Level 3 Semester 1 module

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OF MORATUWA
Some Information
Contact Information:
Dr. Ajith Pasqual
Dept. of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering,
University of Moratuwa,
Tel: 2650634 Ext. 3321 (Direct: 2650426)
Email: [email protected]

Web Resources:
Course Web Page: EN3550 @ LearnOrg

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First ….
• Lecturers:
– Dr. Ajith Pasqual
– Dr. Ranga Rodrigo
• Course web page will contain all relevant 
information about the course and is the place 
to look at for any important notices relevant to 
this course.
– Don’t run around looking for the lecturers … First 
check the page.

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Course Objectives
• to study the foundation for DSP ­ Discrete Time 
Signals and Systems
• to study the different implementation techniques for a 
given discrete  time system and their relative merits 
and demerits
• to study digital filter design techniques, including 
adaptive filters.
• to study the effects of digitization on DSP hardware 
based solution (E.g. finite  word lengths)
• to study the basics of discrete Fourier transforms and 
methods for its  computation.
• to study digital signal processors and how to select 
one for a given  situation.

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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module, students should be able to 
• appreciate the importance of DSP for a wide variety 
of applications
• understand the foundation for DSP ­ discrete time 
signals and systems
• understand the importance of different 
implementation methods  for  discrete time systems 
and their relative merits/demerits
• apply the digital filter design techniques to solve real 
world filtering  problems
• understand the usage and computation of DFT
• select a suitable digital signal processor for a given 
situation
• use Matlab as a tool to find a numerical solution for 
any given problem  in DSP

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Evaluation Criterion
• Examination – 60%
• Continuous Assessment – 40%
• Let’s look at Continuous Assessment:
– No traditional assignments!!
– One research paper presentation (20% of CA)
– One group project spanning the full semester – 
This carries 60% of CA part.  
– Group members will be evaluated individually in 
addition to group evaluation.
– 10% of CA – Quizzes
– 10% of CA – Class participation
• Few tutorials related to different sections will 
be given.

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Continuous Assessment (CA)
• Research paper presentation (20% of CA)
– This is an individual assignment. You are required 
to find a suitable research paper and study that in 
detail.
– Then write a summary paper that includes the key 
points discussed in the paper, its relative 
significance to this course and probable 
improvements (if any) to techniques suggested in 
the paper. 
• Your main resources for finding a good paper:
– IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
– ICASSP – International Conference on Acoustics, 
Speech and Signal Processing 

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What is this “Group Project”?
• Up to now (from 02 to 05 batches), we had individual 
mini projects.  Some students produce excellent work 
while some less than ordinary. 
– Let us look at an example. 
• This has been quite successful.  
• Some deficiencies
– No team efforts. You are unlikely to work alone in the industry!
– Full implementation did not happen sometimes due to time and 
hardware constraints. 
• This time we want equal contribution from all students 
in the group. 
–  Group project – 2 students/group
– Clear identification of tasks handled by each student
–  You will be using a DSP Development Board or Advanced 
Development Board based on FPGA (Field Programmable 
Gate Array)
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Virtex­II­Pro Development Board

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Let us look at places where DSP is 
being applied…

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Processing of Electrical Signals
• Software Radio,
• Instrumentation and Control ­ spectrum 
analysis, noise reduction
• Speech/Audio ­ Speech recognition, 
synthesis, text to speech  
• Telecommunication ­ Echo cancellation, 
adaptive equalization etc.,  
• Consumer Applications ­ mobile 
phones, digital TV and cameras etc., 
• Biomedical ­ scanners, ECG analysis
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Generalizations to 2D (with source 
being Electrical)
• Image Processing ­ robot vision, pattern 
recognition etc.,
– Lights from a scene induces currents in CCD 
elements
– The magnitude of these currents forms the basis of 
pixel value (Gray Scale or RGB value with 3 
sensors).
– Inherently discrete data (finite number of CCD 
elements organized as a matrix).
– Processing of such signal is  2D (Spatial) signal 
processing
• Add the temporal element to it
– You will be then processing Video Signals (as a 
sequence of 2D signals)
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Is DSP only applicable to 
Electrical Signals?

Is a signal always 
electrical?

What about other discrete 
data?

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Genomics

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Genomics ­ II

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What can you expect at the end?
• You will be exposed to what “Digital 
Signal Processing (DSP)” is all about 
in the modern context – Signal 
Processing has become an integral part 
in many products.
• You will be competent in testing your 
DSP algorithms in hardware and have a 
better idea of implementational issues.

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