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Electrical and Computer Engineering

18-551 – Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design

12 units

This course provides the student with a rich, in-depth design and application hardware project experience in the areas of digital communications and/or signal processing systems using DSP hardware. Teams of students work on a semester-long project of their choice. Topics include: speech and music processing, digital communications, multimedia processing, data compression, data storage, wireless communications, CD, image and/or signal processing, etc. One month of introductory laboratories familiarize the students with DSP hardware and support software. Lectures address z-transforms, IIR and FIR filter design using MATLAB and DSP hardware, LPC and adaptive filters, channel coding, time and frequency multiplexing, short time Fourier and wavelet transforms, and spread spectrum techniques.

4 hrs. lec., 3 hrs. lab

Prerequisites:18-450 or 18-491 or (18-370 and 18-391)

Last updated on October 11, 2010

ECE classifications

Undergraduate areas

Signals and Systems

Undergraduate designations

Capstone Design, Coverage, Depth

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Current session

This course is currently being offered.

Past semesters

S11, F09, F08, F07, F06, S06, F05, S05, S04, S03, S02, S01, S00, S99, S98, S97

Please note that the course history information is incomplete and/or may reflect different courses offered under the same course number.



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