Rhea Section for ECE 438 Professor Boutin, Spring 2009

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Course Details

ECE 438: Digital Signal Processing with Applications

Instructor: Prof. Mimi Boutin (mboutin@ you know where)
Office: MSEE342, tel. 4-3538
Office Hours: M 13:30-14:20, W 13:00-14:20 F 15:30-16:20

TAs: Sean Hu (hu@ecn. you know where) and Liang Liu (liangliu@purdue. you know what)
Sean's Office Hours in MSEE184: T 11:30a-12:30p, Th 10:30a-11:30a
Liang's Office Hours in MSEE184: F 10:30a-11:30a

• Syllabus
• Schedule
• Office Hours Poll - New!

Recent Posts

• Getting_X(w)_from_X(f) by Myron.
• Mimi filled out the office hour poll with her constraints.
• Prof. Allebach's previous mid-term & final exam lists by Joon

Prof. Mimi's Corner

Prof. Mimi will use this space to share material with the class

• Homework Statements and due dates
• Food for thoughts

Course Related Material

• Course Notes
• Prof. Allebach's Lecture Notes
• Definitions
• Table of Formulas
• List of Symbols
• SDR Related
  • Excuse my ignorance but what is SDR?" --Alibaba 18:49, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
  • It is short for "Software Defined Radio", which is a software level application based version of modern day digital communications radios. Its main advantage is that it offers a tremendous amount of flexibility and compatibility--Ekavurma 10:33, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
  • For more information, click Software Defined Radio--Kim415 16:12, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Homework Related

Note that it is perfectly ok to discuss the homework questions on Rhea. In particular, you are allowed to post your own solutions. --Mboutin 17:01, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

• Homework 0: Student Intros,TAs Comments
• Homework 1: Please discuss hw1 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution
• Homework 2: Please discuss hw2 here, TAs Comments, TA's solution.
• Homework 3: Please discuss hw3 here, TAs Comments

Exam Related

Let's begin to try to solve old exams! They are many posted on Prof. Allebach's website, and I will try to write a similar one this time. If you scan your solved exam and post a pdf here, I will do my best to find the time to grade it. (But don't post it at midnight the day before the exam, ok?) --Mboutin 22:51, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

• Useful Information for Exam 1(Feburary 18th): Please contribute here, TAs Comments

Here is the link that you can find out the previous exam. It is for the students who may have difficult time to search Prof. Allebach's previous exam.--Kim415 15:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

• Prof. Allebach's previous mid-term & final exam lists

Miscellaneous

• Interested in digital communications? Please consider attending this Tektronix presentation on Friday February 6, 2009.
• Wondering if the course material would be useful in real life?, go to VIP (Vertically Integrated Projects) and read about research projects related to this class. Whenever you see the VIP logo in the course notes, it means that there is related information on VIP that you may find interesting. Contact the TA of VIP if you would like to join one of the teams. The first VIP meeting will take place on Wed (01/14/09) at 4:30pm in MSEE 184.

• LaTex Equation Editor:
• http://thornahawk.unitedti.org/equationeditor/equationeditor.php

Discussions

• Questions & Answers

Area to post questions, set up study groups, etc.