Advanced DSP for Undergraduates at a Small University

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Advanced DSP for Undergraduates at a Small
University

• David Waldo
• Associate Professor
• Electrical Engineering
• dwaldo_at_oc.edu

August 2, 2000
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Contents

• Introduction
• Motivation
• Oklahoma Christian Curriculum
• Implementation at a Small University
• Conclusion
• Question/Answers

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Introduction

• OC EE Curriculum update began implementation two
  years ago
• Partial support for DSP lab development under NSF
  CCLI grant DUE-9952720
• Similar undergraduate courses offered at Georgia
  Tech

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Motivation

• OC EE Department goal to "produce students who
  are immediately productive in industry"
• Shift in industry from analog to digital and from
  fixed to programmable
• Concepts of data structures, object oriented
  design, concurrent and real-time systems

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OC Curriculum (a)

• Emphasis areas for electives
• DSP
• Communications
• Computers
• Electronics
• 16 Hours of Bible
• 4-1/2 years for graduation
• Small University (lt2000 total students, lt200 in
  Engineering)

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OC Curriculum (b)

• DSP prerequisites
• Math calculus, differential equations, linear
  algebra, probability
• Programming C, assembly
• Discrete and Continuous-time Systems time and
  frequency domain analysis of discrete and
  continuous-time systems, Fourier transform,
  Z-transform, sampling, frequency response,
  digital filters, state-space analysis
• Digital Circuits
• Stochastic Processes stationarity, correlation,
  types of processes, power spectral density,
  response of linear systems

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OC Curriculum (d)

• DSP I Topics
• Implementation of discrete-time systems
• DSP device architecture and programming
• Finite word length effects
• FIR/IIR digital filter design
• Multirate DSP
• Power spectrum estimation
• Linear prediction and optimal filtering

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OC Curriculum (e)

• DSP I Laboratory
• Previously used C31 DSK
• New lab to use C62x/C67x EVM
• Reasons for using C6x platform
• Functionality of the C6x chips
• Later courses will be using the C6x chips because
  of the CCS and DSP/BIOS functionality needed
• Texas Instruments, as well as third parties and
  publishers, are giving much support and attention
  to the C6x

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OC Curriculum (f)

• DSP II Topics
• Real-time system development
• DSP processor architecture and systems
• DSP programming
• DSP II Laboratory (CCS DSP/BIOS II)
• Basics, compiling, loading, project management
• Breakpoints, probe points, file I/O
• Graph window, profiling, host interface
• Spawning and controlling tasks and data I/O
• Real-time scheduling analysis, load analysis
• Queues, semaphores and mailboxes

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OC Curriculum (g)

• DSP III Topics
• Stationary processes and models
• Eigenanalysis
• Kalman filtering
• LMS and RLS
• Introduction to non-linear adaptive filters

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Implementation at a Small University (a)

• Resources
• 5 ME Professors
• 5 EE professors
• Support for Math, Science and General Education
  courses
• Maximum of 145 total credit hours for an EE
  degree
• 60 credit hours for general education courses
  (including 16 hours for Bible)

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Implementation at a Small University (b)

• Problems/Solutions
• Number of hours
• Some General Ed covered by EE courses
• Limited to 145 hours, resulted in 140 required
• Small number of faculty
• First 2 years in ME EE identical
• Most EE courses only offered once a year
• Breadth/depth of topics
• Judicious selection of fundamental topics
• Emphasis/electives in a small number of areas
• Electives stack three courses

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Conclusion

• Advanced topics in DSP at a small university is
  possible
• Tradeoffs are always necessary
• Judicious choices of courses, topics and number
  of hours is necessary

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Questions/Answers