Course Outline

To establish the idea of using computing techniques to alter the properties of a signal for desired effects, via understanding of:

Signal Representation and Time Domain Analysis - Review of basic signal functions, Dirac Delta functions, Time scaling, shifting and reversal, linear and circular convolutions, circular convolution as linear convolution with aliasing, overlap add/save method, signal power/energy. Frequency Domain Analysis - Continuous time Fourier Transform, Properties of Fourier Transforms, Frequency selective filtering, Sampling theory, band pass signals sampling and practical limitations (Nyquist rate), Quantization. Discrete Signal Transforms - Discrete Time Fourier Transform, z-Transform, ROC, Properties of zTransforms, Inverse z-Transforms. General Digital System Properties - Causality, Conditions of causality, Real systems, Stability, Conditions of stability, Pole-zero representations of Digital Systems, System Frequency Response, General Difference Equation, Transfer Function, Phase response, Magnitude response, Relationship between Impulse response and Frequency response, inverse system, minimum phase system, generalized linear phase system. Filter Design - Discrete Linear Time Invariant Systems, Forms of implementation of a Discrete filter, Digital filter design criteria, Impulse Invariant Method, Parks-McClellan algorithm. Hardware implementation structured of filters Direct form, cascade form, and parallel form for both FIR and IIR. Tapped delay line and transpose structures. Bilinear Transformation with Butterworth, Chebyshev and elliptic Low-Pass Filter. Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Filters - Practical FIR filter implementation, Relationship between Low and High pass FIR filters, Band pass and Band stop FIR filter design, Hamming, Hanning, Blackwell and Kaiser Windows for FIR filter design. notch and comb filters Discrete Fourier Transform theory, DFT Spectral leakage, DFT algorithms (Goertzel algorithm and chirp-z transform) andFast Fourier Transform algorithm Poly phase filter banks , QMF (quadrature mirror filter) banks STFT (short time fourier transform), wavelet transform

The final phase of the course will introduce advanced DSP topics related to multidimensional signal processing, speech processing and Texas instruments (TI) DSP processors.

Note: The topics highlighted with bold font may or may not be included in the course.

Marks Distribution Assignments Mid Term Final Total 20.0% 30.0% 50.0% 100%

Class Timings:

Monday (7:30pm 9:00pm) & Wednesday (6:00pm to 7:30pm)

Office Timings: Email IDs:

Monday before Class & Wednesday after Class.

Dr. Tahir (tahir.zaidi@case.edu.pk) Muhammad Zia ul Hassan (ziaulhassan@carepvtltd.com)