Class: 8/30/2010

First day of class.  Topics covered include the following.

• Class administration, syllabus, assignment format, blog, resources, etc.
• Look over the first homework assignment.
• Refresh your C programming skills for the programming assignments.  At a minimum, you will need to do the following: allocate and free memory for arrays (calloc/free in C or new/delete in C++), file I/O (binary and text), and pass arrays into and out of functions.
• Discussed topics that we will touch upon: CTFT, CTFS, Laplace transform, DTFT, DTFS, z-transform, DFT, FFT, (DWT?, DCT?); sampling and reconstruction, up and down sampling plus general sample rate conversion; analysis, design, implementation of FIR and IIR filters; multirate systems and filter banks.
  

Welcome

Greetings.  In ECE 5630, we shall try using this blog as a means for communicating among the teacher and members of the class. I encourage the use of this blog for at least the following purposes.

• Each day after we meet for class, I will (try) to post a list of what I thought were the most important topics that we covered that day.
• If you have questions, this blog would be a good place to post them. Questions could be about material that we covered (or didn't cover) in class, the homework or computer programming assignments, etc.
• This blog would be a good place to raise points for discussion. I'll try to stay abreast of what is going on in the blog and address in class issues that are raised here. 
• What did I miss?