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
Signals and Systems
Capstone Design, Coverage, Depth
This course is currently being offered.
S11, F09, F08, F07, F06, S06, F05, S05, S04, S03, S02, S01, S00, S99, S98, S97
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