Signals and Systems

Polytechnic School
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Coordinator: Xavier Serra
Web for the students: http://aulaglobal2012-2013.upf.edu/course/view.php?id=4921&username=guest

This is an introductory course to digital signal processing thought for the second year engineering students of the Polytechnic School. The course lasts 20 weeks with 36 hours of lectures, 18 hours of labs, and 18 hours of seminars.

Topics covered

• Introduction to Signals and Systems
• Sinusoids and Exponentials
• Spectral representation
• Sampling and aliasing
• Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters
• Frequency response of FIR filter
• Z-Transform
• Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters
• Continuous-Time Signals and LTI Systems
• Continuous-Time Fourier Transform
• Filtering, Modulation, and Sampling
• Computing the Spectrum

References

Signal Processing First (SPF). James H. McClellan, Ronald W. Schafer, and Mark A. Yoder. Prentice Hall, 2nd edition. 2003
Discrete-Time Signal Processing. A. V. Oppenheim and R. W. Schafer. Prentice Hall. 1999. 

Software

Matlab
Octave