ELEC 310: Digital Signal Processing, Spring 2010

Instructor: Dr. Alexandra Branzan Albu email: aalbu at uvic dot ca

Lectures: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 10:30-11:20 am ECS 125

Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00-3:00 pm ECS 631 or by appointment

Course Outline

News

Office hours for final exam: Tuesday April 13 9:30 am-12:00 am.

Assignments and exams

Assignment 1 (posted on January 15, due January 22^nd)

Assignment 2 (posted on February 9, due February 24)

Assignment 3 (posted on February 26, due on March 5)

Assignment 4 (posted on March 18, due on March 25)

Assignment 5 (posted on April 1, due on April 8)

Tables to be provided for the final exam

Marks

All marks

Solutions and solved examples

Quiz 1 solution

Assignment 1 solution

Assignment 2 solution

Assignment 3 solution

Assignment 4 solution

Assignment 5 solution

Midterm part A

Midterm part B

Midterm solution(both parts)

Solutions to selected problems from Chapter 2.

2.2, 2.29 convolution

2.7 periodicity analysis

2.18, 2.19 properties of LTI systems

2.20 connections of LTI systems and examples of convolutions computed with 2^nd graphical method

Quiz review examples

Moving average filter (example from L12)

Solutions to selected problems from Chapter 3 (3.1 to 3.20)

Example 2 from L19

Examples from the midterm review lecture

Solutions to selected problems from Chapter 6

Solutions to selected problems from Chapter 4

Additional materials

Excerpt from IEEE Potentials (Jan 2010) about Signals and Systems

Engineering Math First Aid Kit (contains explanations and examples regarding Partial Fraction Expansion)

Calendar (subject to change)

Week	Lecture Notes
1. Jan 4–10	L1. Introduction L2. Review of complex numbers L3. Discrete-time signals Additional readings: Review of complex numbers (excerpt from 2004 MIT Tutorial 1, Signals and Systems) Signal energy and power (excerpt from Oppenheim and Willsky, Signals and Systems) Transformations of the independent variable (multiple transformations)
2. Jan 11-17	L4. Discrete-time signals and systems. L5. LTI systems. The convolution sum. L6. Properties of LTI systems. Additional readings: example of convolution computation using the 2^nd method Assignment 1posted on Jan 15.
3. Jan 18-24	L7. Properties of LTI systems (cont’d) L8. Linear Constant-Coefficient Difference Equations (LCCDE) L9. Eigenfunctions of LTI systems Assignment 1 due on Jan 22.
4. Jan 25 – 31	L10. Quiz review L11. QUIZ (Jan 27, in-class). L12. Frequency domain representation of DT signals and systems
5. Feb 1-7	L13. Representation of sequences by Fourier Transforms (section 2.7) L14. Fourier Transform Computations L15. Properties of the Fourier Transform
6. Feb 9-15	L16. Properties of the Fourier Transform (cont’d) L17. Solving difference equations with the Fourier transform L18. The Z-Transform. Definition and convergence Assignment 2 posted on Feb 9.
7. Feb 15-21	Reading break
8. Feb 22-28	L19. The Z-Transform. ROC properties. L20. The inverse Z-Transform. Z-Transform properties Assignment 3 posted on Feb 26.
9. March 1-7	L21: Z transform and LTi systems L22: Sampling. L23. Midterm review
10. March 8-14	L24. Midterm part A (March 9, in-class) L25. Midterm part B (March 10, in-class) L26. Sampling. Reconstruction of a CT signal from its samples.
11. March 15-21	L27. Discrete-time processing of CT signals (no slides) L28. Discrete-Time processing of CT signals (cont’d) L29. Sampling of Discrete-Time Signals Reading for L29. Assignment 4 posted on March 16
12. March 22-28	L30.Structures for DT Systems. Block diagrams. L31. Block diagrams (cont’d) L32. Invited Lecture on audio signal processing: Dr. George Tzanetakis From rat laughter to speed metal: a personal history of phase vocoding Assignment 4 due on March 24, 4:00 pm
13. March 29- April 4	L33. Signal flow graphs. L34. Signal flow graphs (cont’d) Assignment 5 posted on April 1.
14. April 5-9	L35-36. Final course review. Assignment 5 due on April 8 4 pm.