Texas A&M University ELEN 644: Advanced DSP, Spring'06

Coordinator: Zixiang Xiong, WERC 244C, 862-8683, zx@ece.tamu.edu.
Description: This is a graduate level DSP course that is designed to provide students with a broad perspective on the DSP field.

Prerequisites: ELEN 444 and ELEN 646, or permission of the Coordinator.
Class Time and location: TR 11:10 AM-12:25 PM, ZACH 322.
Office hours: TR after class.

Textbook: Proakis and Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications, 3rd Ed., Prentice-Hall, 1996.
References:

  1. A. Oppenheim and R. Schafer, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Prentice-Hall, 1989.
  2. J. Proakis, C. Rader, F. Ling, and C. Nikias, Advanced Signal Processing, Macmillan, 1992.
  3. P. Vaidyanathan, Multirate Systems and Filter Banks, Prentice-Hall, 1993.
  4. M. Vetterli and J. Kovacevic, Wavelets and Subband Coding , Prentice-Hall, 1995.
Grading:
  1. 20% Problem sets
  2. 40% Two midterm exams (20% each)
  3. 40% Final exam
Homework and exams: Homework assignments are due before the end of class on the due dates, and will not be accepted late. The exams may cover any of the assigned reading material, even if not discussed in class. All exams will be open book and open notes.

Topics:

  1. Review of elementary DSP techniques (Chapters 1-5, 7 and 9 in textbook, chapters 1-9 in reference 1, and class notes)
  2. Algorithms for DFT: Winograd's DFT algorithm (Chapter 6 in textbook and chapter 2 in reference 2)
  3. Filter design: Least square method (Chapter 8 in textbook)
  4. Multirate digital signal processing (Chapter 10 in textbook and class notes)
  5. Linear prediction and optimum linear filters (Chapter 11 in textbook)
  6. Adaptive filtering (Chapter 6 in reference 2)
  7. Power spectrum estimation (Chapter 12 in textbook)