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 vuvuzulas 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 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