Credits:
Semesters Offered
Learning Objectives
- Interpolate discrete-time sinusoids using knowledge of sampling rate and bandwidth
- Use complex phasors to represent and manipulate real-valued sinusoids
- Represent finite-dimensional linear transformations by matrices; interpret the latter in terms of the former
- Calculate orthogonal projections and least-squares approximations for both real and complex vectors
- Compute simple low-dimensional DFTs and their inverses from first principles
- Correctly interpret the information in a DFT spectrum and use it to reconstruct a time-domain signal as a sum of its Fourier components
- Understand and apply DFT properties pertaining to index reversal, index shift, modulation, periodic extension and zero-padding
- Compute Fourier series coefficients of simple periodic signals in continuous time
- Determine the frequency response of a FIR filter; interpret the frequency response in the context of frequency selection
- Compute the time-domain response of a FIR filter to exponential, periodic and finite-duration inputs
- Use MATLAB to visualize, analyze and process signals and images, thereby applying the theory and tools taught in the lectures
Topics Covered
- Real and complex sinusoids in continuous time
- Sampling of sinusoids, discrete-time sinusoids, aliasing
- Matrices and linear transformations, linear systems
- Matrix inversion, Gaussian elimination
- Inner products, norms, projections; orthogonal bases
- DFT as an orthogonal projection, interpretation of the DFT
- Signal transformations and the DFT, symmetry, duality
- Zero-padded and periodic extensions and the DFT
- Periodicity in continuous time, sums of harmonically related sinusoids
- Fourier series of a periodic signal; evaluation of coefficients, properties
- LTI filters and impulse response, FIR filters
- FIR filters and finite duration inputs: linear convolution
- FIR filters with sinusoidal and exponential inputs: frequency response, system function
Learning Outcomes
- Ability to apply knowledge of math, science, & engineering (Significant)
- Ability to design/conduct expt. & analyze/interpret data (Moderate)
- Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (Moderate)
- Techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice (Significant)