Test and measurement equipment for this course is supplied by Keysight Technologies.
Course content
Introduction
- Signal Processing
- what is DSP?
- advantages and disadvantages
- quantisation and sampling
- aliasing
- anti-aliasing
- reconstruction filters
Theoretical Foundations
- difference equations and z transforms
- finite and infinite impulse response filters (FIRs and IIRs)
- poles, zeros and frequency response
- correlation
Design of Digital Filters
- FIRs and IIRs
- Butterworth
- Chebyshev and Elliptical filters
- linear-phase, windowing
- bilinear transform & frequency warping
- direct synthesis by CAD
- hardware & software implementations
- wordlength
- precision and stability
Frequency Domain Processing
- continuous and discrete Fourier transforms
- The fast Fourier transform (FFT)
- applications
- convolution
- correlation
DSP Hardware
- A/Ds, D/As and over-sampling
- microprocessors
- DSP processors
- fixed and floating point comparisons
- programming and debugging techniques
ASIC Implementation
- technologies
- architectures for high performance
- pipelining and bit-slices
- carry-save and carry-look-ahead
- array multipliers
Some Typical DSP Applications
- speech recognition
- control
- image recognition
- radar
- room response analysis
- demonstrations.
Discussion and Feedback
Future trends
First day registration from 8.30am when course materials will be distributed.
Refreshments from 8.30am on the first day plus two 30 minute breaks during the day and a one-hour lunch break.
The course will begin at 9.00am and end at approximately 5.00pm on each day.