ECE438 Course Summary (Fall 2009)

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