Kevin M. Buck

Research Engineer / Ph.D. Candidate / Instructor

University of Idaho

 

Office: BEL 321

Email: kevin.buck@vandals.uidaho.edu

Cell Phone: 509-336-9624 between 10am and 8pm Monday-Friday

 

Class Textbook: Digital Filtering: An Introduction by Edward P. Cunningham (1992)

 

Additional Reference: Digital Filters and Signal Processing by Leland B. Jackson (I’m using the 2nd edition)

                                        Schaum’s Outlines Signals and Systems by Hwei P. Hsu

 

Interesting Links:

The Joys of Convolution http://www.jhu.edu/~signals/convolve/index.html

 

ECE 476 Spring 2008

Syllabus – Revised Jan. 22, 2008 (in pdf here)

(2/1/2008 pdf version is coming.  My converter is glitching, I’ll have access to a new one on Monday)

                *Correction to be made: Outreach homework is due 2 weeks after on-campus students.

 

HW1 – January 11, 2008  *correction on problem1 issued Jan 16, 2007. 

                Make u(-1)=0, u(0)=1, u(1)=1, u(2)=1, u(3)=1, u(4)=0, u(5)=0…….

              (Otherwise you have unbounded terms).

 

CONVOLUTION EXAMPLE Jan 16, 2008

 

HW2 – Read Chapter 2, Section 3.5 and 3.6.  Nothing to hand in for this HW assignment. – Jan. 22, 2008

            Happy MLK Day!

 

HW3 – Due: On campus – TBD; Off-Campus – Feb 15, 2008 (TBD)

(Due to my inability to travel to the Moscow Campus and Moscow Campus Closures, we will determine a new due date on Monday Feb. 4)

 

Z-Transform Table on www.wikipedia.org

 

Chapter 4: An introduction using Microsoft Powerpoint. Click here

 

Bilinear Filter and Impulse Invariant Lecture. Click here

 

HW4 – Feb. 8, 2008

 

Lecture Notes are now located HERE!!!

 

Exam Example in PDF is located HERE!!!

 

Matlab Example Located HERE!!!

 

HW5 – Assigned in class March 24, 2008.  Due in class on April 11th, 2008.

            Outreach Students Due on day Exam 2 is started. Corrections provided in Red.

Choose 3 out of the following 5 to implement in computer tool.  Other 2 copy example by hand. For outreach students, just go through the examples you choose not to attempt and if there is any questions please write them out in whatever method you want and turn the questions in with the homework.  We will try to answer them during the HW5 review.

1.   Example 5.2. Plot Magnitude and Phase

2.   Example 5.4 with f(t)=sin(x1)+sin(x2)+sin(x3) where x1<fc/10, x2=fc, x3>10fc

a.    Plot Transient response before and after filter

3.   Repeat Plots in Figure 5.18

4.   Figure 5.21

5.   Ex 5.8

All 3 of the following

6.   Example 6.1, plot Magnitude and Phase

7.   By hand do Example 6.2

8.   Section 6.7 Copy Figures and determine F5 from the graphs.

a.    Figure 6.12, Figure 6.13

b.   Figure 6.15