Homework for Day 7

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Question 1
(Difficulty: ) Which of the following are linear systems ?

(tick all the linear systems)

Envelope detection (via squaring):

y [n] = |x[n]|
2

h[n]

where

h[n]

is the impulse response of a lowpass filter such as the moving average filter.

Time-stretch :
y (t) = x(t),

e.g. if you play an old LP-45 vinyl disc at 33 rpm, the time-stretch coefficient would be = 33/45.

AM radio modulation : mix a signal x with a cosine oscillating at the carrier frequency :
y [n] = x[n] cos(2c n)

The DTFT : transforms a sequence

into

DTFT{x}.

y (t) =

dt

x(t)

Clipping : Enforce a maximum signal amplitude

x[n] M

M,

i.e.

y [n] = {

, x[n] M , otherwise

Scrambling : apply a permutation to the input sequence, e.g. :

Question 2
(Difficulty: ) Which of the following are time-invariant systems ?

(tick all the time-invariant systems)

Clipping : Enforce a maximum signal amplitude

x[n] M

M,

i.e.

y [n] = {

, x[n] M , otherwise

Scrambling : apply a permutation to the input sequence, e.g. :

The DTFT : transforms a sequence

into

DTFT{x}.

Envelope detection (via squaring):

y [n] = |x[n]|
2

h[n]

where

h[n]

is the impulse response of a lowpass filter such as the moving average filter.

Time-stretch :
y (t) = x(t),

e.g. if you play an old LP-45 vinyl disc at 33 rpm, the time-stretch coefficient would be = 33/45.

y (t) =

dt

x(t)

AM radio modulation : mix a signal x with a cosine oscillating at the carrier frequency :
y [n] = x[n] cos(2c n)

Question 3
(Difficulty: ) The impulse response of a room is defined as the recorded sound by a microphone from the (wall) scatterings of an impulsive sound source. The impulse response
h[n]

of Lausanne Cathedral was measured by Dokmanic et al. by

recording the sound of balloons being popped ( hear it! ). The balloon is popped at time i.e. h[n]
= 0 n = 0

and after a number of samples N , no sound is recorded,

for

n < 0

or

n > N.

The acoustic of this large space can then be artificially recreated by convolving any audio recording with the impulse response, e.g. this cello recording becomes like this.

What are the properties of h[n] ? (tick all the correct answers) BIBO stable IIR Anticausal

Question 4
(Difficulty: ) Let h[n]
x[n] = { 1 0 = [n] [n 1] , , n 0, , else.

and

y [n] = x[n] h[n] .

Compute

y [1] , y [0] , y [1] , y [2] .

Note : If you find

2101

y [1] = 2 , y [0] = 1 , y [1] = 0 , y [2] = 1 ,

you should enter

Question 5
(Difficulty: ) Consider the filter the signal x[n] and
= { n 0 y [n] = x[n] h[n] . h[n] = [n] [n 1] , , n 0, , else.

Compute

y [1] , y [0] , y [1] , y [2] .

Note : If you find

2101

y [1] = 2 , y [0] = 1 , y [1] = 0 , y [2] = 1 ,

you should enter

Question 6
(Difficulty: ) Which of the following filters are BIBO-stable? Consider be positive numbers. Any filter
h[n] N N

and

c R

with finite support and bounded coefficients.

[ n ]+ [ n 1]

The moving average: h[n]

The ideal low pass filter with a cutoff frequency c : H (ej ) The step function: h[n]
= u[n].

= {

1 0

|| c otherwise

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