EE345S Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Lab

EE345S Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory - Midterm #2

Midterm #2 for the Spring 2006 semester will be on Thursday, May 4th, during lecture time (5:00 to 6:30 PM)

Midterm #2 will be an open book, open notes exam scheduled to last the entire period. Midterm #2 may include questions from both lecture and from the lab.

Midterm #2 will cover mainly the material presented in lecture and lab since the first midterm. However, you may need to use material presented in lecture before the first midterm as background information. So, for Midterm #2, you will be responsible for the material in

  1. In-class lectures, lectures 7-9, 12-18, and 20
  2. Johnson and Sethares, Telecommunication Breakdown, sections 6.5-6.7, sections 7.1-7.2, chapters 8-9, sections 10.1-10.3, chapter 11, sections 12.1-12.4, sections 13.1-13.2, and appendices A, D, E, and F
  3. Tretter, Communication System Design using DSP Algorithms, chapters 9-13
  4. Laboratory assignments 4-7
  5. Homework assignments 3 and 4
For Midterm #2, you will be responsible for the following topics:
  1. Interpolation and pulse shaping: discrete-to-continuous conversion, pulse shapes, raised cosine pulse (lecture 7)
  2. Quantization: SNR vs. bits of resolution, noise floor, power spectra, and system properties (lecture 8)
  3. Analog Sinusoidal Modulation: AM, DSB, SSB, QAM, FM, PM (lecture 9)
  4. Analog PAM (lecture 12), including pulse trains, sample-and-hold, and time division multiplexing
  5. Matched Filtering (lecture 13) including
  6. Digital PAM, including error analysis, power requirements, transmission, and reception (lecture 14)
  7. Digital QAM, including error analysis, power requirements, transmission, and receptions (lectures 15 and 16)
  8. Discrete and Fast Fourier Transform including linear convolution, circular convolution, and implementation complexity (lecture 17)
  9. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Modems including multicarrier modulation, cyclic prefix, equalization, transmission bandwidth, and wired channel models (lecture 18)
  10. Wireless OFDM systems including multicarrier modulation, cyclic prefix, equalization, transmission bandwidth, and wireless channel models (lecture 20)