ECE431H1S -Digital Signal Processing: Lectures

ECE431H1F Fall 2025 --Digital Signal Processings: Lectures

Here is a tentative list of topics to be covered in lectures.


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Lecture No. Lecture Date Topics and Textbook Section(s)
1 Jan. 2 Syllabus; Syllabus 2025(pdf)
Introduction to course; lecture 1(pdf)
2 Jan. 4 The concept of frequency; Ideal continuous to discrete (C/D) and discrete to continuous (D/C) time signal conversion; Ideal periodic sampling; (text sections 4.1,4.2,4.3); lecture 2(pdf)
3Sept. 8 Reconstruction using ideal low pass filter; The sampling theorem for lowpass signals; Application to Bandpass signals
(ed. 2 and 3: 4.1,4.2,4.3,4.8); lecture 3(pdf)
4Sept.9 Uniform Quantization and coding; non-uniform quantization, mu-law
(ed. 2 and 3: 4.8.1,4.8.2,4.8.3) ;lecture 4(pdf)
5Sept.11 Practical sampling; practical A/D and D/A;
(ed 2 and 3: 4.8) ;lecture 5(pdf)
6Sept.15 Examples. lecture 6(pdf)
7Sept. 16 z-transforms; (ed 2 and 3 chapter 3) lecture 7(pdf)
8Sept. 18 The Discrete time Fourier Transform/Series (DTFT and DTFS);
(ed. 2 and 3: 2.7, 8.1,8.3); lecture 8(pdf)
9Sept. 22 Sampling the DTFT; The N-point discrete Fourier Transform (N-DFT); (ed. 2 and 3: 8.4, 8.5, 8.6); lecture 9(pdf)
10Sept. 23 N-DFT; Zero padding and digital interpolation
(ed. 2 and 3: 8.4, 8.5, 8.6);lecture 10(pdf)
11Sept. 25 Properties of the N-DFT; Linearity, Circular shift;
Cyclic shift, Time reversal, Parseval's theorem, time expansion and digital interpolation (ed. 2 and 3 : 8.6, 8.7.1, 8.7.2); lecture 11(pdf)
12Sept. 29 Properties of the N-DFT; circular convolution; .
(ed. 2 and 3 : 8.6); lecture 12(pdf)
13Sept. 30 Implementation of LTI filtering using the DFT and circular convolution;
Overlap and add method; Overlap and save method;
(ed. 2 and 3 : 8.7.3)lecture 13(pdf)
14Oct. 2 Multirate systems: Up-sampling and digital interpolation;
Down-sampling and decimation;
(ed. 2 and 3: 4.6.1,4.6.2,4.6.3);lecture 14(pdf)
15Oct. 6 Multirate systems: Oversampling in A/D conversion
(ed. 2 and 3: 4.6.1,4.6.2,4.6.3,4.9.1); lecture 15(pdf)
16Oct. 7 Efficient computation of the DFT; Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT);
Decimation in time Radix-2 FFT;
(ed 2 and 3: 9.0, 9.2, 9.3); );lecture 16(pdf), lecture 16 continued(pdf)
17Oct. 9 Implementation of Radix-2 Inverse FFT algorithms;
FFT and IFFT - Practical considerations; N=N1xN2 point FFT; Examples
(ed 2 and 3: 9.3, 9.4, 9.5);lecture 17(pdf)
18Oct. 14 Review class midterm exam 2023(pdf)
19Oct. 16 midterm Exam : Thursday , Oct. 16, 1:10-2 pm, Room HS106 (heath Sciences Bld, 166 College str.), material corresponding to lectures 1-15, problem sets 1-5,tutorial topics 1,2 midterm exam 1 solutions page 1(pdf) midterm exam 1 solutions page 2(pdf) midterm exam 1 solutions page 3(pdf) midterm exam 1 solutions page 4(pdf)
20Oct. 20 Decimation in frequency Radix-2 FFT algorithms;
(ed 2 and 3: 9.3);lecture 18(pdf)
21Oct. 21 Realizations of FIR systems; Linear phase FIR systems (ed 2, 3: 6.5) lecture 19(pdf)
22Oct. 23 Direct form realizations of IIR systems;(ed 2 and 3: 6-0-6.3)
Cascade realization of IIR systems;(ed 2 and 3: 6.3) lecture 20(pdf)
23Nov. 3 Parallel realizations of IIR systems;(ed 2 and 3: 6.3); Transposed form realizations ; lecture 21(pdf)
24Nov. 4 Realization of FIR filters using the Frequency-Sampling method lecture 22(pdf)
25Nov. 6 Digital filter design (ed 2 and 3: 7.0)
Design of FIR filters- Windowing Method
(ed 2: 7.2, 7.2.1, 7.2.2) (ed 3: 7.5, 7.5.1, 7.5.2)
lecture 23 (pdf)