2.161 | Fall 2008 | Graduate

Signal Processing: Continuous and Discrete

Lecture Notes

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1

Introduction to signal processing

Properties of LTI continuous filters

The Dirac delta function

Properties of the delta function

Practical applications of the Dirac delta function

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2

Continuous LTI system time-domain response

Sinusoidal response of LTI continuous systems

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3

The Fourier series and transform

Periodic input functions — the Fourier series

Aperiodic input functions — the Fourier transform

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4

Review of development of Fourier transform

The frequency response of a linear system defined directly from the Fourier transform

Relationship between the frequency response and the impulse response

The convolution property

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5

The one-sided Laplace transform

The transfer function

Poles and zeros of the transfer function

Frequency response and the pole-zero plot

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6

Poles and zeros of filter classes

The decibel

Low-pass filter design

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7

Butterworth filter design example

Chebyshev filters

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8

Second-order filter sections

Transformation of low-pass filters to other classes

State-variable active filters

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9

Operational-amplifier based state-variable filters

Introduction to discrete-time signal processing

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10

The sampling theorem

The discrete Fourier transform (DFT)

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11

The discrete Fourier transform (cont.)

The fast Fourier transform (FFT)

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12

The fast Fourier transform (cont.)

Spectral leakage in the DFT and apodizing (windowing) functions

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13

Introduction to time-domain digital signal processing

The discrete-time convolution sum

The z-transform

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14

The discrete-time transfer function

The transfer function and the difference equation

Introduction to z-plane stability criteria

The frequency response of discrete-time systems

The Inverse z-Transform

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15

Frequency response and poles and zeros

FIR low-pass filter design

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16

FIR low-pass filter design by windowing

Window FIR filters or other filter types

The zeros of a linear phase FIR filter

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17

Frequency-sampling filters

FIR filter design using optimization

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18

FFT convolution for FIR filters

The design of IIR filters

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19 The design of IIR filters (cont.) (PDF)
20

Direct-form filter structures

Transversal FIR structure

IIR direct form structures

Transposed direct forms

Coefficient sensitivity in direct form filters

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21

Interpolation and decimation

Introduction to random signals

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22

The correlation functions (cont.)

Linear system input/output relationships with random inputs

Discrete-time correlation

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23 Non-parametric power spectral density estimation (PDF)
24 Least-squares filter design (PDF)
25 Adaptive filtering (PDF)

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