ECE 410 - Digital Signal Processing I

Spring 2009


Instructors:

Prof. Narendra Ahuja Prof. Zhi-Pei Liang
Email: n-ahuja@illinois.edu Email: z-liang@illinois.edu


Lectures:

Section D Tuesday, Thursday 2:00 - 3:50 pm 103 TL
Section G Tuesday, Thursday 9:00 - 10:50 am 119 MSEB

* Professor Ahuja will teach both sections for the first half of the course, and Professor Liang will teach both sections for the second half of the course


Teaching Assistants:

Zixia Huang (zhuang21@illinois.edu)
Darren Pocci (dpocci2@illinois.edu)
Charles Spuckler (spuckler@illinois.edu)


TA Office Hours: Mon 4:00 - 5:00 pm, EL 369 (Charles)
Tue 4:00 - 5:00 pm, EL 369 (Charles)
Tue 6:00 - 8:00 pm, EL 369 (Zixia)
Wed 3:00 - 4:00 pm, EL 369 (Darren)
Wed 5:00 - 6:00 pm, EL 368 (Darren)



Instructor Office Hours: Wed 1:00 - 2:30 pm, Beckman 2041 (Ahuja); Beckman 4257 (Liang)



Course Information: Course Handout
Prerequisites: ECE 210 or consent of instructor
Credits: 4 hours



Weekly Schedule
Week # Dates Reading Topics Exam HW Due
1 1/20-1/23 Ch 1, 2.1-2.2, 7.25-7.28 DSP overview; Continuous-time (CT) and discrete-time (DT) signals; Complex numbers; sinc function, Dirac delta function; Fourier transform (FT) and frequency representation of CT signals
2 1/26-1/30 Ch 2 Frequency representation of discrete-time (DT) signals; Discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT); Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) 1
3 2/2-2/6 Ch 3, Ch 14.1-14.10 DFT-based spectral analysis; Applications of DFT spectral analysis; Fast Fourier transform (FFT) 2
4 2/9-2/13 Ch 4.1-4.5, Ch 5 (Parts 1 & 2) Sampling; Ideal analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion; Discrete-time LTI systems (linearity, causality, shift-invariance) 3
5 2/16-2/20 Ch 5 (Part 3), 6 Zero-state response of LTI systems; Convolution; Impulse response; z-transform 4
6 2/23-2/27 Ch 6 Properties of z-transform; Inverse z-transform Exam I (2/26)
7 3/2-3/6 Ch 7.1-7.8, 7.18-7.25, 14.11-14.20 Convolution via z-transform; Fast convolution via FFT; Difference equations; System analysis; BIBO stability 5
8 3/9-3/13 Ch 8.1-8.14 Steady-state analysis of stable LTI systems; Frequency response; Relationships between impulse response, transfer function, and frequency response 6
9 3/16-3/20 Ch 4.6-4.8, 8.15-8.20, 9.1-9.8, Digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion; DT processing of CT signals 7
10 3/23-3/27 Spring Break
11 3/30-4/3 Ch 8.15-8.26 DT processing of CT signals; Analog frequency response of a digital processor 8
12 4/6-4/10 Ch 10 Digital filter structures; FIR and IIR filters Exam II (4/9)
13 4/13-4/17 Ch 11 Generalized linear phase; FIR filter design; windowing methods 9
14 4/20-4/24 Ch 11 FIR filter design; frequency sampling method, and min-max method 10
15 4/27-5/1 Ch 12 IIR filter design; IIR design via bilinear transformation
16 5/4-5/8 Practical applications; review Final (5/8) 11