18-551 Digital Communication and Signal Processing Systems Design
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course provides the student with a rich, indepth design and application hardware project experience in the areas of digital communications andor signal processing systems using DSP hardware. Teams of students work on a semesterlong project of their choice. Topics include speech and music processing, digital communications, multimedia processing, data compression, data storage, wireless communications, CD, image andor signal processing, etc. One month of introductory laboratories familiarize the students with DSP hardware and support software. Lectures address ztransforms, IIR and FIR filter design using MATLAB and DSP hardware, LPC and adaptive filters, channel coding, time and frequency multiplexing, short time Fourier and wavelet transforms, and spread spectrum techniques. 4 hrs. lec., 3 hrs. lab.
Prerequisites: 18-491 and (18-496 or 18-370 or 18-348 or 18-349)
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