modules / DESP2045
DESP2045 — Signals and Systems
- Credits
- 10, third year
- Semester
- 1 (weeks 1–11)
- Lectures
- Tuesday 10:15, room 214
- Laboratory
- Friday 09:00, benches 3–6
- Assessment
- Two laboratory reports (40%), written examination (60%)
- Module leader
- Dr E. Nowak
Topics by week
| Week | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Sampling and reconstruction | notes |
| 4 | Aliasing in practice | notes |
| 5 | Spectrum of a square wave | laboratory 1 |
| 6 | Sampling and aliasing | laboratory 2, sheets in class |
| 7 | Convolution and transfer functions | — |
Reading
- Oppenheim & Willsky, Signals and Systems, chapters 1–4.
- Course notes, distributed in class and posted after each session.
Assessment detail
Each laboratory report is two pages: measured data, one figure and a short discussion of where the measurement departed from the prediction. Reports are due two weeks after the session. Late submission loses 10% per working day.