 When you click the Amazon logo to the left of any citation and purchase the book (or other media) from Amazon.com, MIT OpenCourseWare will receive up to 10% of this purchase and any other purchases you make during that visit. This will not increase the cost of your purchase. Links provided are to the US Amazon site, but you can also support OCW through Amazon sites in other regions. Learn more. |
Texts
Required
[MSY] McClellan, J. H., R. W. Schafer, and M. A. Yoder. DSP First: A Multimedia Approach. East Rutherford, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN: 9780132431712.
Shannon, C. E., and W. Weaver. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780252725463. [Download a copy of the original 1948 paper by Shannon, upon which the book is based, from Bell Labs.]
Recommended for those who want more help
Karu, Zoher Z. Signals and Systems Made Ridiculously Simple. Huntsville, AL: ZiZi Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780964375215.
Readings files.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| L1 |
Introduction
Overview of subjects to be covered during the term; basic math concepts; notation; vocabulary. Representation of systems
|
MSY 1.1-1.4, A.1-A.6 (A.5 is optional) |
| L2 |
Sinusoids
Complex exponentials
|
MSY 2.1-2.9 |
| L3 |
Spectra
Spectrum plots, AM
|
MSY 3.1-3.4, C.7.1.3 |
| L4 |
Periodic waveforms
Fourier series, frequency modulation (FM)
|
MSY 3.5-3.6 |
| L5 |
Basis functions and orthogonality
Definition of orthogonality; Walsh functions and other basis sets; discrete Fourier basis matrix
|
Notes on basis functions (PDF) |
| L6 |
Sampling I
Sampling theorem, aliasing
|
MSY 4.1-4.3 |
| L7 |
Sampling II
Reconstruction
|
MSY 4.4-4.6 |
| L8 |
Psychophysics, psychoacoustics, and other physiological signals
|
|
| L9 |
Communication theory I
Ergodic processes/Markov models; choice, uncertainty and entropy; Shannon's fundamental theorem for a noiseless channel; entropy coding
|
Shannon and Weaver, pp. 3-64. |
| L10 |
Communication theory II
Discrete channels with noise; continuous channels; error detection and correction
|
Shannon and Weaver, pp. 65-80.
Handout on error-correcting codes (PDF)
|
| L11 |
Pre-quiz wrap-up
|
|
| L12 |
Quiz 1 |
|
| End of MAS.510; start of MAS.511 |
| L13 |
Discrete-time systems I
FIR filters. Impulse response. Convolution
|
MSY 5.1-5.3 |
| L14 |
Discrete-time systems II
Implementations of general LTI systems
|
MSY 5.4-5.9 |
| L15 |
Frequency response I
Response of FIR systems; properties
|
MSY 6.1-6.4 |
| L16 |
Frequency response II
|
MSY 6.5-6.9 |
| L17 |
Z-transform, I
Definitions; convolution and the Z-transform; poles and zeros
|
MSY 7.1-7.6.2 |
| L18 |
IIR systems
Definitions; impulse response and frequency response
|
MSY 8.1-8.5
Notes from prior years
Z-transforms: part I (PDF)
Z-transforms: part II (PDF)
Partial fraction expansion (PDF)
|
| L19 |
Z-transforms II
Inverse Z-transform; stability; partial fraction expansion
|
MSY 8.6-8.9 |
| L20 |
Spectrum analysis I
The DFT; fast algorithms
|
MSY 9.1.1, 9.2.2, 9.3.1-9.3.2, 9.3.5-9.3.7 |
| L21 |
Spectrum analysis II
The DTFT
|
MSY 9.4-9.7 |
| L22 |
Practical filter design
|
MSY 7.7-7.10, 8.10-8.11
|
| L23 |
Pre-quiz wrap-up and practical communication systems
Real-world modulation and demodulation methods; spread-spectrum
|
Notes on modulation (PDF) |
| L24 |
Quiz 2 |
|