Laboratory #1

Graduate course: Digital Signal Processing

Prof. Henry Arguello Fuentes
Universidad Industrial de Santander
March 2, 2017

Instructions
• Please send a single .RAR or .ZIP compressed file including the report in PDF format
and the corresponding Matlab files.
• All documents must be send to the e-mail hans.garcia@saber.uis.edu.co no later
than March 02, 2017 at midnight.
• Do not forget to clearly state in the e-mail subject the following “Lab#XX LastName
GivenName”.

1. Consider the cascade connection of two LTI systems:

LTI System 1 LTI System 2

𝑥[𝑛] ℎ( [𝑛] 𝑤[𝑛] ℎ) [𝑛] 𝑦[𝑛]

ℎ( [𝑛] ℎ) [𝑛]

0 3 n -3 0 n

(a) Determine and sketch w[n] = (−1)n u[n]. Also determine the overall
output y[n]. Use Matlab and write the used pseudo-code.
(b) Determine and sketch the overall impulse response of the cascade
system.
(c) Now consider the input x[n] = 2δ[n] + 4δ[n − 4] − 2δ[n − 12]. Sketch
w[n].
(d) For the input in part (c), write an expression for the output y[n]
in terms of the overall impulse response h[n] as defined in part (b).
Make a carefully labeled sketch of your answer.

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2. The linear convolution is defined as,

y(n) , x(n) ∗ h(n), (1)

and it has the following properties:

x1 (n) ∗ x2 (n) = x2 (n) ∗ x1 (n) : Commutation

[x1 (n) ∗ x2 (n)] ∗ x3 (n) = x1 (n) ∗ [x2 (n) ∗ x3 (n)] : Association
x1 (n) ∗ [x2 (n) + x3 (n)] = x1 (n) ∗ x2 (n) + x1 (n) ∗ x3 (n) : Distribution
x(n) ∗ δ(n − n0 ) = x(n − n0 ) : Identity

Use Matlab to verify the properties using the following sequences.

x1 (n) = cos(πn/4) [u(n + 5) − u(n − 25)]

x2 (n) = round [5w(n)] , −10 ≤ n ≤ 10; where w(n) is uniform over [−1, 1]
x3 (n) = (0.9)−n [u(n)u(n − 20)]