Course pages 2015–16

Digital Signal Processing

Lecture notes

• Presentation slides – for 4:3 projector
• Print version – 4 slides per side of A4
• Large print version – 2 slides per side of A4
• Exercises

Revision materials (available to current Part II students after the end of supervisions):

• Example solutions for the exercises
• All past exam questions with solution notes
• All past exam questions

Demonstration and exercise materials

• Introduction to MATLAB lecture
• Zoneplate sampler, zoneplate bitmap (lecture 4)
• IQ sampled recordings of FM radio broadcasts (exercises 12 and 13):
  • iq-fm-96M-240k.dat
    center frequency 96.0 MHz (= BBC Radio Cambridgeshire), sample rate 240 kHz, 30 s, 38 MB
  • iq-fm-97M-3.6M.dat
    center frequency 97.0 MHz, sample rate 3.6 MHz, 4 s, 102 MB, covers three FM radio stations
• stars-blurred.png, stars-psf.png (exercise 15)
• touchtone.wav (exercises 16 (b) and 17)
• Touchtone specification: ITU-T Recommendations Q.23 and Q.24 (exercises 16 (b) and 17)
• Image files bear.png and boat.png used in the demonstration (lecture 11, source)

Related links

• DSP textbook with full text online: Steven W. Smith: The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
• This course is only a brief introduction into the basics of Digital Signal Processing. For in-depth coverage, have a look at the entire series of courses taught on the same subject in the Engineering Tripos:
  • Fourier Transforms, Signal & Data Analysis (Part IB, Paper 7, Section C, lecture notes: Joan Lasenby)
  • Module 3F1 – Signals and Systems (Part IIA)
  • Module 3F3 – Signal and Pattern Processing (Part IIA, lecture notes: Dr Godsill)
  • Module 4F7 – Digital Filters and Spectrum Estimation (Part IIB, lecture notes: Dr Godsill)
• comp.dsp FAQ
• Cool videos: mechanical implementation of the inverse DCT and the DCT.