EE345S Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Lab

Course Schedule

This course is a three-credit course, with three hours of lecture and three hours of lab scheduled per week. For Spring 2006, lecture will be held in ENS 115 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, beginning January 17th and ending May 5th. The laboratory sessions will be held in ENS 252B on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from January 23rd until May 5th. The weekly schedule of lecture hours, office hours, and lab sections follows.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
9:00 AM O.H. Olson (ENS 252B) Lab. Olson (ENS 252B)
10:00 AM O.H. Olson (ENS 252B) Lab. Olson (ENS 252B)
11:00 AM O.H. Sheikh (ENS 252B) O.H. Olson (ENS 252B) Lab. Olson (ENS 252B)
12:00 PM O.H. Sheikh (ENS 252B) Lab. Sheikh (ENS 252B)
1:00 PM O.H. Sheikh (ENS 252B) Lab. Sheikh (ENS 252B)
2:00 PM O.H. Wang (ENS 252B) Lab. Sheikh (ENS 252B)
3:00 PM O.H. Wang (ENS 252B)
4:00 PM
5:00 PM Lec. Arslan (ENS 115) O.H. Arslan (ENS 620B) Lec. Arslan (ENS 115)
6:00 PM Lec. Arslan (ENS 115) O.H. Arslan (ENS 620B) Lec. Arslan (ENS 115)
7:00 PM Lab. Olson (ENS 252B) Lab. Wang (ENS 252B) Lab. Sheikh (ENS 252B)
8:00 PM Lab. Olson (ENS 252B) Lab. Wang (ENS 252B) Lab. Sheikh (ENS 252B)
9:00 PM Lab. Olson (ENS 252B) Lab. Wang (ENS 252B) Lab. Sheikh (ENS 252B)

Lectures and Laboratories

Web pages for lecture presentations and laboratory assignments are linked below.

Week Tuesday Lecture Thursday Lecture Lab Reading
1/16 Introduction Introduction to Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) NO LAB Tuesday: Tretter, ch. 1
1/23 Introduction to DSPs (con't) Introduction to DSPs (con't) Introduction - TI tools Tuesday: Johnson & Sethares, ch. 1
1/30 Signals and Systems Signals and Systems (con't) Sine Wave Generation Pre-lab quiz: Tretter, ch. 2
Tuesday: Johnson & Sethares, 2.1-2.7
2/6 Finite Impulse Response Filters Finite Impulse Response Filters (con't) Sine Wave Generation Tuesday: Johnson & Sethares, 2.8-3.4
Thursday: Johnson & Sethares, 3.5-4.7, A.2, A.4
2/13 TMS320C6000 DSP Infinite Impulse Response Filters Digital Filters Pre-lab quiz: Tretter, ch. 3
Tuesday: Johnson & Sethares, 7.1-7.2
2/20 Infinite Impulse Response Filters Sampling and Aliasing Digital Filters Thursday: Johnson & Sethares, 6.1-6.4
2/27 Interpolation and Pulse Shaping Quantization Digital Filters Thursday: Johnson & Sethares, appendices B and E
3/6 Analog Pulse Amplitude Modulation Midterm #1 Data Scramblers Pre-lab quiz: Reader handout L and Tretter, ch. 9
3/13 SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK
3/20 Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation Matched Filtering Data Scramblers Tuesday: Johnson & Sethares, ch. 8 and 9
Thursday: Johnson & Sethares, 11
3/27 Matched Filtering (con't) Matched Filtering (con't) Pulse Amplitude Modulation Pre-lab quiz: Tretter, ch. 10-11
4/3 Analog Sinusoidal Modulation QAM Transmitter Pulse Amplitude Modulation Tuesday: Johnson & Sethares, ch. 5 and appendix C
Thursday: Johnson & Sethares, 6.5-6.7 and QAM chapter on CD ROM
4/10 QAM Receiver Fast Fourier Transform Pulse Amplitude Modulation Tuesday: Reader handout M and Johnson & Sethares, 10.1-10.3 and 12.1-12.4
Thursday: Johnson & Sethares, appendix D
4/17 Fast Fourier Transform (con't) DSL Modems Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Pre-lab quiz: Tretter, ch. 13
Thursday: Johnson & Sethares, 13.1-13.3
4/24 Wireless OFDM Systems Data Conversion Basics Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
5/1 TBA Midterm #2 QAM Receivers Pre-lab quiz: Tretter, ch. 14

The following lectures form supplemental material for the course:

This course does not require a semester project nor does it have a final examination. Final grades will consist of laboratories, homework, and exams. Exams will be based on material covered during class lecture and laboratory sessions, in assigned reading, and on course handouts. Please see the above links for specific topics covered on each midterm.