Reading Guide

Here is a reading guide to help you get ready for the final exam. It would be great if students would a) add references, and b) note the references that they find most useful.

Note: PM refers to the official course book, Digital Signal Processing, 3rd edition, J.G. Proakis and D.G. Manolakis. Prentice Hall, 1996.

Basic Material

• Review of complex numbers from Prof. Pollak's supplementary notes
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on complex variables
• PM's discussion of Linear algebra and Fourier series: pp. 232-240, 247-253, 399-409,
• Prof. Pollak's supplementary notes on Fourier series

Signals

• PM pp. 7-21
• Lab on discrete and continuous signals
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Signal Types
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Signal Characteristics
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Signal Transformations
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Special Signals
• Prof. Allebach's handout on signal types
• Prof. Pollak's notes on signals

Systems

• PM pp. 43-91
• Lab on discrete-time systems
• Prof. POllak's notes on systems
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Systems Overview, p. 63
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on System Properties
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Convolution, pp. 87-92, 97-110

Frequency analysis

• :ab on frequency analysis
• Frequency response: 1.2.3
• DTFT: PM pp. 253-259, 264-314, 331-345,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Fourier analysis
• Prof. Pollak's notes on frequency analysis

Sampling

• PM pp. 23-33, 738-748, 782-790,
• Prof. Pollak's notes on sampling
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on sampling analysis
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on relation between CTFT and DTFT
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on sampling rate conversion

Z-transform

• PM pp. 151-197,
• Prof. Pollak's notes on z-transform
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Derivation,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Properties and Pairs,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Z-transform and Difference Equations pp. 33-45,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Inverse Z-transform
• Prof. Bouman's handout on partial fractial expansion for inverse z-transform

Filter Design

• First lab on digital filter design
• Second lab on digital filter design

DFT and FFT

• PM pp. 393-425, 448-475
• First lab on DFT and FFT
• Second lab on DFT and FFT
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Derivation p. 24
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Properties and Pairs,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on FFT,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Circular Convolution
• Prof. Pollak's notes on FFT
• Prof. Bouman's handout on DFT, FFT, and quantization

Speech

• First lab on speech processing
• Second lab on speech processing
• Prof. Pollak's notes on speech processing
• Speech processing course by Mike Brooks

Random sequences

• First lab on random processes
• Second lab on random processes
• Prof. Pollak's notes on random sequences, detection, and estimation
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on One Random Variable,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Two Random Variables,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Random Sequences,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Estimation of Distributions,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Filtering,
• Prof. Allebach's lecture notes on Estimation of Correlation Functions

Quantization

• Laboratory on number representation and waveform quantization
• Prof. Bouman's handout on DFT, FFT, and quantization

2D Fourier transform

• Prof. Bouman's lecture notes on 2D FT

Image Processing

• First lab on image processing
• Second lab on image processing