ECE 201 Class Notes

Lecture Notes

In the table below, for each class you find the topic of the lecture; the topics are linked to a set of slides covered in the class. Slides are not available for all lectures.
The final column may include links to other resources from the lecture, e.g., MATLAB files.

Date Topic Other Resources
Aug. 27 Introduction These are the MATLAB examples (and related files) I was planning to use in the first class:
Jan. 28 Sinusoidal Signals Chapter 2: sections 2-1 through 2-4
Sept. 3 Sum of Sinusoidal Signals
Sept. 5 Complex Exponential Signals and Phasors Chapter 2: section 2-5;
Sept. 10 The Phasor Addition Rule Chapter 2: section 2-6
Sept. 12 Sums of Sinusoids of Different Frequency Chapter 3: section 3-1
Sept. 17 Spectrum Analysis and Synthesis; Example: Beat Notes Chapter 3: section 3-2
Sept. 19 Spectrum Analysis Examples: Amplitude Modulation Chapter 3: section 3-2
Sept. 24 Periodic Signals and Fourier Series Chapter 3: section 3-4
Sept. 26 Time-varying Spectrum, Instantaneous Frequency, and Chirps Chapter 3: section 3-5 through 3-7
Oct. 1 Operations on Spectrum Chapter 3: section 3-3
Oct. 8 Introduction to Sampling
Oct. 10 Sampling Experiments Chapter 4, throght section 4.2.
Oct. 17 Sampling Theorem and D-C Conversion Chapter 4, through section 4.5
Oct. 22 Introduction to Systems; unit-step and unit-impulse signals; step-response and impulse response Chapter 5, through section 5.3
Oct. 24 Causality, Linearity, and Time-invariance Chapter 5, section 5.6
Oct. 29 Linearity, Time-invariance and Convolution Chapter 5, section 5.7
Oct. 31 Implementation of FIR Filters, Block diagrams, series and parallel connection of systems. Lecture notes: part 1 and part 2 Chapter 5, section 5.5
Nov. 5 Introduction to Frequency Response Chapter 6, section 6.1
Nov. 7 Frequency Response of LTI Systems Chapter 6
Nov. 19 Filtering in the Frequency Domain Chapter 6
Nov. 21 Introduction to Transforms; Discrete-Time Fourier Transform (DTFT) Chapter 7, through section 7.1
Nov. 26 Properties if the Discrete-Time Fourier Transform Chapter 7, through section 7.2
Dec. 3 Introduction to the z-Transform Chapter 9, through section 9.6
Dec. 5 Introduction to the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) Chapter 8, through section 8.3

Complete Set of Slides