Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE CCE5201

 
TITLE Advanced Signal Processing

 
UM LEVEL 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course

 
MQF LEVEL Not Applicable

 
ECTS CREDITS 6

 
DEPARTMENT Communications and Computer Engineering

 
DESCRIPTION Study-unit Content:

- Sampling Theorem: relation of analog frequency response and digital frequency response;
- Z-transform: time series and their z-transforms, relationships, and analysis on unit circle;
- Discrete Fourier Transform: Circular convolution, linear convolution using DFT, time-frequency relationships, the FFT;
- Digital Filters: FIR and IIR designs from z-transforms;
- Power Spectrum Estimation: windows, window spectral leakage, narrowband and wideband spectrograms;
- Homomorphic signal processing: deconvolution of convolved signals, cepstrum and quefrency;
- Multirate signal processing: decimation and interpolation of the sample points, and their effect on bandwidth and time series; polyphase structures;
- Linear Prediction and Optimum Linear Filters;
- Power Spectrum Estimation;
- Time-frequency signal processing: quadrature mirror filters, wavelet transform, relationship of QMF with wavelet theory.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

- J. G. Proakis & D.K. Minolakis, Digital Signal Processing (4th Edition), Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN 978-0131873742.
- Engelberg Shlomo, Digital Signal Processing, Springer 2008, ISBN: 978-1-84800-118-3.
- P. P. Vaidyanathan, See-May Phoong, and Yuan-Pei Lin, Signal Processing and Optimization for Transceiver Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN-13: 9780521760799.
- Owen M, Practical Signal Processing, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 9780521854788.

 
RULES/CONDITIONS Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU ARE ADVISED TO TAKE CCE2202

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Practical No 20%
Examination (3 Hours) Yes 80%

 
LECTURER/S Trevor Spiteri (Co-ord.)
Gianluca Valentino

 

 
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