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.