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ECE 438: Digital Signal Processing with Applications

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Why Digital Processing (course motivations)

• Historical Preservation: Original Caruso (1904) versus Caruso digitally processed
• A software to remove the sound of vuvuzelas at World Cup of Soccer, 2010 (see this student explanation).
• Prof. Jan Allebach talking about the experience of a past ECE438 student now working for N-ask

Relevant Tables of Formulas

• Power Series
• basic signals and functions
• Signal Metrics Definitions and Formulas
• Laplace Transform Pairs and Properties
• Continuous-time Fourier Transform Pairs and Properties
• Discrete-time Fourier Transform Pairs and Properties

To brush up on pre-requisites

• ECE301 stuff about the construction of periodic signals
• Recommended exercises of Fourier series computations for CT signals, especially this one.
• Recommended exercises of Fourier series computations for DT signals

Practice Problems

• DFT computation
• z-transform computation)
• Inverse z-transform computation)
• Frequency domain view of sampling)
• Filter design question
• computing the z-transform and inverse-z-transform

Interesting pages in the ECE438 category

• List of symbols
• Dhruv Lamba's summary of filtering
• Prof. Boutin Digital speech analysis lecture notes, by Peter Clay
• Ryan Scheidt's summary of Spectral Analysis of 2D signals
• Dhruv Lamba's summary of "Audio Signal Filtering"

Semester/Instructor specific pages

• ECE 438 Fall 2011, Prof. Boutin
• ECE 438 Spring 2011 Prof. Allebach
• ECE 438 Fall 2010 Prof. Boutin
• ECE 438 Fall 2009 Prof. Boutin
• ECE 438 Spring 2009 Prof. Boutin

Related Courses

• If you liked ECE438, you will probably like ECE637.

References

• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, By Steven W. Smith, Ph.D. (free online book)
• Wikibook on Digital Signal Processing

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