Signals, Spectra, and Signal Processing

Course Description
• Fourier transform; z transform; convolution; FIR
filters; IIR filters; random signal analysis; correlation
functions; DFT; FFT; spectral analysis; applications
of signal processing to speech, image, etc.
• Upon completion of the course, the student must
be able to conceptualize, analyze and design
signals, spectra, and signal processing system.

Course Outline
1. Classification and characteristic of signals
2. Sampling theorem and aliasing
3. Difference equations for FIR and IIR filters
4. Convolution and correlation
5. Z transforms
6. Pole-zero-gain filters
7. Fourier transforms
8. Filtering
9. FIR/IIR

Laboratory (Using GNU Octave):

1. Periodic signals
2. Non-periodic signals
3. Computation of transforms
4. Sampling and quantization
5. Measurements on filter response
6. FIR filter analysis and design
7. IIR filter analysis and design

References
• Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms,
and Applications, 5th Edition
➣ John G. Proakis, Northeastern University
➣ Dimitris G. Manolakis, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology

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