Revision as of 22:23, 17 February 2019 by Wan82 (Talk | contribs)

(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)


ECE Ph.D. Qualifying Exam

Communicates & Signal Process (CS)

Question 2: Signal Processing

August 2011




Problem 1. [60 pts]
In the system below, the two analysis filters, $ h_0[n] $ and $ h_1[n] $, and the two synthesis filters, $ f_0[n] $ and $ f_1[n] $,form a Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF). Specially,
$ h_0[n]=\dfrac{2\beta cos[(1+\beta)\pi(n+5)/2]}{\pi[1-4\beta^2(n+5)^2]}+\dfrac{sim[(1-\beta)\pi(n+0.5)/2]}{\pi[(n+.5)-4\beta^2(n+.5)^3]},-\infty<n<\infty with \beta=0.5 $



Problem 2. [50 pts]
Consider a finite-length sinewave of the form below where $ k_{o} $ is an interger in the range $ 0 \leq k_{o} \leq N-1 $.

$ x[n] = e^{j 2 \pi \frac{k_{o}}{N} n} \{ u[n] - u[n-N] \} $ (2)

In addition, h[n] is a causal FIR filter of length L, where L < N. In this problem $ y[n]=x[n] \star h[n] $ is the linear convolution of the causal sinewave of length N in Equation (1) with a causal FIR filter of length L, where L < N.

$ y[n]=x[n] \star h[n] $

(a) The region $ 0 \leq n \leq L-1 $ corresponds to partial overlap. The covolution sum can be written as:

$ y[n]=\sum_{k=??}^{??} h[k] x[n-k] \ \ partial \ \ overlap:\ 0 \leq n \leq L-1 $ (3)

Determine the upper and lower limits in the convolution sum above for $ 0 \leq n \leq L-1 $
(b) The region $ L \leq n \leq N-1 $ corresponds to full overlap. The convolution sum is:

$ y[n]=\sum_{k=??}^{??} h[k]x[n-k] \ \ full \ \ overlap: \ L \leq n \leq N-1 $ (4)

(i) Determine the upper and lower limits in the convolution sum for $ L \leq n \leq N-1 $.
(ii) Substituting x[n] in Eqn (1), show that for this range y[n] simplifies to:

$ y[n]=H_{N}(k_{o}) e^{j 2 \pi \frac{k_{o}}{N} n} \ \ for L \leq n \leq N-1 $(5)

where $ H_{N}(k) $ is the N-point DFT of h[n] evaluated at $ k = k_{o} $. To get the points, you must show all work and explain all details.
(c) The region $ N \leq n \leq N+L-2 $ corresponds to partial overlap. The convolution sum:

$ y[n] = \sum_{k=??}^{??} h[k]x[n-k] \ \ partial \ \ overlap: \ N \leq n \leq N+L-2 $(6)

Determine the upper and lower limits in the convolution sum for $ N \leq n \leq N+L-2 $.
(d) Add the two regions of partial overlap at the beginning and end to form:

$ z[n] =y[n]+y[n+N]=\sum_{k=??}^{??}h[n]x[n-k] \ \ for: \ 0 \leq n \leq L-1 $(7)

(i) Determine the upper and lower limits in the convolution sum above.
(ii) Substituting x[n] in Eqn (1), show that for this range z[n] simplifies to:

$ z[n] = y[n]+y[n+N]=H_{N}(k_{o})e^{j2 \pi \frac{k_{o}}{N} n} \ \ for \ 0 \leq n \leq L-1 $ (8)

where $ H_{N}(k) $ is the N-point DFT of h[n] evaluated at $ k = k_{o} $ as defined previously.
(e) $ y_{N}[n] $ is formed by computing $ X_{N}(k) $ as an N-pt DFT of x[n] in Enq (2), $ H_{N}(k) $ as an N-pt DFT of h[n], and then $ y_{N}[n] $ as the N-pt inverse DFT of $ Y_{N}(k) = X_{N}(K)H_{N}(k) $. Write a simple, closed-form expression for $ y_{N}(k) $. Is $ z[n]=y_{N}[n] + y[n+N] \ \ for \ 0 \leq n \leq N-1 $?




Back to ECE QE page

Alumni Liaison

Sees the importance of signal filtering in medical imaging

Dhruv Lamba, BSEE2010