ELEC6400
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course provides students with an advanced knowledge of signal processing with an emphasis on filtering, spectral analysis and applications such as image processing and signal compression.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Discuss the fundamental uses, distinction and trade-offs between analog and digital signal processing methods
2. Demonstrate expertise in analog and digital filter design methodologies
3. Design, implement and test digital filters
4. Apply different transform domain techniques for signal processing
5. Demonstrate skills and understand the principles of extensions and applications
6. Gain experience in working on a practical group project
Content
- Review of sampling theory and discrete-time systems
- Review of continuous-time and discrete-time Fourier transforms and convolution
- Discrete-time and Discrete Fourier Transform Theory
- Fast Fourier Transforms
- Z-transform
- Analog filter design techniques and digital implementation
- Extensions and applications
Requisite
This course has similarities to ELEC3400. If you have completed ELEC3400, you cannot enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
ELEC2430 Circuits and Signals
Assessment items
Formal Examination: Final examination
Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Laboratory exercises
Quiz: Quiz
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 5 week(s) starting in week 8
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
- ELEC6400 - Semester 1, 2024 (Callaghan) (PDF, 336.0 KB)
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