In this lab we introduce the fundamentals of LabVIEW. LabVIEW is a programming environment that you will find helpful for many of the exercises in this text.

Manipulating sinusoid functions using complex exponentials turns trigonometric problems into simple arithmetic and algebra. In this lab, we first review the complex exponential signal and the phasor addition property needed for adding cosine waves. Then we will use Matlab to make plots of phasor diagrams that show the vector addition needed when combining sinusoids. [Files]

The objective of this lab is to introduce more complicated signals that are related to the basic sinusoid. These are signals which implement frequency modulation (FM) and amplitude modulation (AM) are widely used in communication systems such as radio and television, but they also can be used to create interesting sounds that mimic musical instruments.

In this lab, we will synthesize more complicated sinusoidal waveforms composed of sums of sinusoidal signals, each with a different frequency. The sounds synthesized will one of several songs. [Files]

This lab includes a project on speech synthesis with sinusoids. The speech synthesis will be done with sinusoidal waveforms where each sinusoid will have short duration on the order of the pitch period of the speaker. One objective of this lab is to study how many sinusoids are needed to create a sentence that sounds good. A secondary objective of the lab is the challenge of putting together the short duration sinusoids without introducing artifacts at the transition times. Finally, much of the understanding needed for this lab involves the spectral representation of signals - a topic that underlies this entire course. [Files]

The objective of this lab is to introduce more complicated signals that are related to the basic sinusoid. These are signals which implement frequency modulation (FM) and amplitude modulation (AM) are widely used in communication systems such as radio and television), but they also can be used to create interesting sounds that mimic musical instruments. [Files]

In this lab, we will synthesize more complicated sinusoidal waveforms composed of sums of sinusoidal signals, each with a different frequency. The sounds synthesized will one of several songs.

The objective in this lab is to introduce digital images as a second useful signal type. We will show how the A-to-D sampling and the D-to-A reconstruction processes are carried out for digital images. In particular, we will show a commonly used method of image zooming (reconstruction) that gives poor results a later lab will revisit this issue and do a better job. [Files]

The goal of this lab is to learn how to implement FIR filters in MATLAB, and then study the response of FIR filters to various signals, including images and speech. As a result, you should learn how filters can create interesting effects such as blurring and echoes. In addition, we will use FIR filters to study the convolution operation and properties such as linearity and time-invariance. [Files]

This mini project concentrates on the use of dconvdemo a GUI for discrete-time convolution. This demo is exactly the same as the MATLAB functions conv() and firfilt() used to implement FIR filters. This demo illustrates an important point about the behavior of a linear, time-invariant (LTI) system. It also provide a convenient way to visualize the output of a LTI system.

The goal of this lab is to study the response of FIR filters to inputs such as complex exponentials and sinusoids. In the experiments of this lab, you will use firfilt(), or conv(), to implement filters and freqz() to obtain the filter's frequency response. As a result, you should learn how to characterize a filter by knowing how it reacts to different frequency components in the input. This lab also introduces two practical filters: bandpass filters and nulling filters. Bandpass filters can be used to detect and extract information from sinusoidal signals, e.g., tones in a touch-tone telephone dialer. Nulling filters can be used to remove sinusoidal interference, e.g., jamming signals in a radar.

This lab introduces a practical application where sinusoidal signals are used to transmit information: a touchtone dialer. Bandpass FIR filters can be used to extract the information encoded in the waveforms. The goal of this lab is to design and implement bandpass FIR filters in MATLAB, and do the decoding automatically. In the experiments of this lab, you will use firfilt(), or conv(), to implement filters and freqz() to obtain the filter's frequency response. As a result, you should learn how to characterize a filter by knowing how it reacts to different frequency components in the input. [Files]

This lab introduces a practical application where we attempt to extract information from sinusoidal signals - in this case, piano notes. Bandpass FIR filters can be used to extract the information encoded in the waveforms. The goal of this lab is to design and implement several bandpass FIR filters in MATLAB, and use the filtered outputs to determine automatically which note is being played. However, since there are 88 keys on the piano, we will only require the system to figure out which octave the note is in, not the exact note. In the experiments of this lab, you will use firfilt(), or conv(), to implement filters and freqz() to obtain the filter's frequency response. As a result, you should learn how to characterize a filter by knowing how it reacts to different frequency components in the input. [Files]

In this mini-project you will Write a simple LabVIEW VI that removes unwanted tones from a wav file. The file SunshineSquare.wav has had some unwanted tones added to it. Your job is to remove the tones so you can hear the message better. [Files]

The objective for this lab is to build an intuitive understanding of the relationship between the location of poles and zeros in the z-domain, the impulse response \(h[n]\) in the \(n\)-domain, and the frequency response \(H(e^{j\hat\omega})\) (the \(\hat\omega\)-domain). A graphical user interface (GUI) called PeZ was written in MATLAB for doing interactive explorations of the three domains.

In this mini-project you will experiment with PeZ to learn the connection between pole-zero placement and frequency response. Given this information you will redo the Tone Removal Mini-Project using an IIR. [Files]

For this mini project you will write a simple function that listens to a tone and identifies what note it is. [Files]

For this mini project you will write a simple function that listens to a wav file of a simple song and identifies the notes being played. The wav files have some simple songs on which you can practice. [Files]

You have gotten to the point in your studies that you can understand DSP papers that appear in IEEE publications. The purpose of this project is to read one such paper and reproduce some of its results.

The goal of this mini-project is to help you understand a simple modem, the FSK modem, referred to by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as V.21.

The goal of this mini-project is to build a simple modem receiver. This a follow on for the previous mini-project.