Introduction to Signal Processing (ECE 2026)
Summer 2023 (GT Metz)

Course Material Overview

The class is divided into two exams, one final, six MATLAB based projects, and eight Homework assignments. In addition, there will be one final project at the end of the semester (no final exam).

Topic
Exam
Proj
HW
On-Line Lectures
Boards
Week 1 Sinusiods (Ch. 2)
& Linearity
SP First Intro
a + jb
Basic Euler
Sinusiod Signal
Sinusoid Addition
Linearity
Slides
Week 2 Spectrum (Ch. 3),
Fourier Series (Ap. C)

Fourier Series
Square Wave Series
Triangle Wave Series
Spectrogram
Slides
Week 3 Sampling and
Aliasing (Ch. 4)
June 2:
lab1
May 31:
Ch 2: 4, 5,
11, 15, 17,
20, 25(a,b)
Ch 3: 6, 8, 12,
16, 20, 22,
26, 27

Periodicity
C2D Mechanisms
Data Converter Linearity
Single cos( )
Sinuoid Sampling

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
Week 4 FIR I (Ch. 5),
Convolution,
Freq. Response I
June 8:
lab
June 5:
Ch 4: 1, 8, 12,
16, 22, 23

FIR Implement
Step & Impulse
Convolution Intro
Convolution 01
Convolution 02
Freq. Resp. I
Triangle Wave Items

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
Week 5 Exam Prep June 14:
F2022
June 12: Ch 5: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 18
Discrete SP Items
Averaging FIR
Difference FIR
Unit1 Slides

1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
Week 6 Freq Resp (Ch. 6)
Transforms
z-Trasform (Ch. 9)

June 22: Chirp, Spectrograms, and Sampling June 19: Ch. 6: 4, 6, 8, 9
Ch. 9: 1, 3
Transform Intro
Signals & Transforms
Boxcar
Conv, Z, and Freq 1
Conv, Z, and Freq 2
Conv, Z, and Freq 3
Slides
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
Week 7 Freq Resp III (Ch. 6)
z-Trans III (Ch. 9)
IIR Intro (Ch. 10)
Other Trans (Ch. 7,8)
June 29: 1st Image SP June 26: Ch. 6: 10, 11, 12, 14
Ch. 9: 4, 6, 7
IIR Structure
Why IIR?
IIR Example
Step Resp I
Freq Resp I
Step Sine I

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
Week 8 IIR (Ch. 10)
DTFT (Ch. 7)
Generalized Transforms
July 6: Color Image Processing July 3: Ch. 6:
15, 16, 20
Ch. 9: 8 9 10
DT & CT IIR I
Laplace Intro
Laplace & 1st ODE
Laplace & 2nd ODE
Laplace & Freq Resp
1st ODE Freq Resp

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9, 10,
Week 9 Exam Prep July 12:
F2022
July 10:
Ch. 7: 3, 4, 8
Ch. 10: 1, 2, 3, 5
1, 2, 3, 4,
Week 10 DFT & Freq.
Transforms (Ch. 8)
IIR Filters (Ch. 10)
Filter Design (Ch. 7, 8)
July 20: FIR Filter Design July 17 : Chp. 7: 17, 19
Chp. 8: 2, 3, 6, 9, 11, 12
Chp. 9: 12, 13, 18
Chp. 10: 13, 15, 20, 22, 28
Filter Specs
Classical ASP
Fourier Trans
Matrix DFT
DFT Filter
4pt DFT Filter

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
Week 11 ANC Introduction
ANC Feedforward
ANC Feedback
ANC Hybrid

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Week 12: Final Exam Final
F2022

1: It is recommended that you also work through the concepts in this computer experiment prliminaries Documents.

Matlab resources

  • MATLAB Primer: pdf or pdf

  • MATLAB helpful information from Jim McClellan: 2 or pdf

Projects are due on Thursdays, submitted electronically by 11:59pm Metz time

Project signoffs must be done by Wednesday, the day before the project is due, during normal business hours.

Homework (paper) is handed in during class on Mondays.

Some additional useful links: One original site around Signal Processing First (hosted at Rose-Hulman): link

David Anderson's Fundamentals of DSP channel and related course material videos.

Some DSP first material: link
MATLAB files

John Barry's Previoius Signal Processing First material such as old exams, and labs

Additional Sites with useful material