Teaching Activities

Digital System for Signal Processing:

Microsoft Teams link

Link to Monday lecture meeting

Link to Friday lecture meeting

Syllabus:

• Embedded systems introduction.
• Digital systems (combinatorial and sequential logic, finite state machine: HW and SW implementation). CMOS technology.
• Numerical representation. Fixed and floating point. Fractional numbers.
• Microprocessors, microcontrollers and DSPs.
• Memory devices. Cache memories.
• Embedded systems programming: assembler and C. Memory mapped I/O and Programmed I/O. Polling loop and interrupt handling.
• Local and remote model of I/O devices. Network topologies. RS232. SPI.
• Programming and debugging tools. Logic state analyzers.
• PLD technologies and devices.
• VHDL - basic concepts.
• VHDL - FSM implementations.
• Laboratory: the Microchip uC 18F452, the TI TMS320C6000 DSP, the ALtera FPGA Cyclone III and their IDEs.

Digital System Design:

Syllabus:

• Course Introduction. Embedded systems. Design Techniques.Hw and Sw codesign. The productivity gap.
• Sampled systems. Sample and block processing. Digital signal processing systems. The sampling theorem. Coherent sampling. Quantization noise and error.
• ADC and DAC: architectures and implementations.
• Analog signal conditioning.
• Numerical filters: FIR and IIR. Computing noise and filter implementations using fixed point arithmetic. Coefficients quantization.
• Digital signal generatin. DDS: noise sources.
• DSP & GPP.
• PLD introduction: SPLD, CPLD and FPGA. PLD Design flow. The methastabilithy issue.
• The VHDL - combinatorial and sequential logic, FSM. Procedures and functions.
• Softcores: design and implementation.
• Project related activities.