Fall 2003

EE 424 Digital Signal Processing

Topics & Reading Homework Quizzes Labs Projects Calendar

Class Announcements

These pages change regularly, so please check them out daily.

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Folks, any ungraded efforts are in a brown envelope outside my office door.  Have a happy holidays!

If you are not sure if you want to take the final exam please email me and I will give you a detailed list of your grade components.

Optional Final Exam:    Wed., Dec. 17, 9:45-11:45 a.m.  Comprehensive, will replace lowest quiz score. It is closed book and you are allowed 2 crib sheets.  (If you take the final, you throw away your worst 2 quiz/final scores; if you don't take the final you throw away your one worst quiz score.)

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EE424 General Information

Lecture: TR  9:30 - 10:45 AM, Coover 3126

Lab:  3113 Coover

Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Davidson (davidson@iastate.edu)

Office: 3121 Coover

Phone: (515) 294-2941 , Fax: (515) 294-8432

Office Hours and Dr. Davidson's schedule:

                Tuesdays: 8-9, 11-12; Thursdays 1:30-2:30.

                Please come by anytime you have questions.

Syllabus
How to determine your grade in the class; and Quiz Policies
Course Objectives

Lab TA:  Gregory Stamp. gstamp@iastate.edu.

Textbook: Introduction to Signal Processing by Sophocles Orfanidis, Prentice Hall, 1996 (Web site contains matlab code for many of the examples in the text)

If you have problems with the appearance of the equation fonts on the pdf documents, please download the mathtype fonts: http://www.mathtype.com/support/fonts/default.stm

 

Interesting Web Links

IEEE Signal Processing Society
Signal Processing Information Base
Matlab FTP area  and other m-files -you can download many useful m files here
Demonstrations in Signals and Systems from the ECE department at Johns Hopkins, there is a nice discrete time convolution demo.
Fourier Synthesis Applet
Digital Filter Design JAVA based filter design tool
More Filter Design generates C code for simple filters using the bilinear transform
Electronic Engineering Times: Good source of news about new DSP and communications products.

MATLAB (TM) Information and Tutorials

Matlab FTP area -you can download many useful m files here
A Practical Introduction to Matlab (Updated for Matlab 5) by Mark S. Gockenbach
Matlab 5.2 Tutorial at Rice University

DSP Hardware Companies 

National Semiconductor
Texas Instruments - TMS320C3x,TMS320C54,TMSC6X chips for digital communications applications
Cypress
Motorola
DSPNet - signal processing vendors
Lucent
Pentek - High-end DSP Solutions

Last Updated December 16, 2003