18-551: Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design
Course Description:
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/image 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, pattern recognition, etc. One month of introductory
laboratories familiarize the students with DSP hardware and support software. Lectures
may 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, image moments,
principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis, advanced correlation filters
and other feature extraction image processing & recognition methods.