EC6303-SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES:

This course trains students for an intermediate level of fluency with signals and systems
in both continuous time and discrete time, in preparation for more advanced subjects in digital
signal processing (including audio, image and video processing), communication theory, and
system theory, control, and robotics.
OBJECTIVES

To understand the basic properties of signal & systems and the various methods of
classification
To learn Laplace Transform &Fourier transform and their properties
To know Z transform & DTFT and their properties
To characterize LTI systems in the Time domain and various Transform domains

OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion, a student should:

Be able to classify systems based on their properties: in particular, to understand and

exploit the implications of linearity, time-invariance, causality, memory, and boundedinput, bounded-out (BIBO) stability.

Know the principles of vector spaces, including how to relate the concepts of basis,
dimension, inner product, and norm to signals.

Learn to treat signals as vectors in a vector space and ascribe geometry to that space by
defining an appropriate inner productin both discrete-time and continuous-time, and
for both periodic and aperiodic signals.

Know how to analyze, design, approximate, and manipulate signals using vector-space
concepts.

Determine Fourier transforms for continuous-time and discrete-time signals (or impulseresponse functions), and understand how to interpret and plot Fourier transform
magnitude and phase functions.

Understand the sampling theorem and how it links continuous-time signals to discretetime signals. In particular, know how to derive the sampling theorem from first
principlesfrom the basic properties of the Fourier transform; how the spectrum of a
sampled signal relates to the spectrum of the original signal; how to use the sampling
theorem to understand aliasing phenomena in the real-world (e.g., the carriage wheel
effect), and how to reduce or prevent aliasing; and how to perform discrete-time
processing of continuous-time signals, and vice versa, using C/D and D/C converters.

Understand the need to define two new transformsthe Laplace and Z transformsto
treat a class of signals broader than what the Fourier transform can handle.

Understand the relationships among the various representations of LTI systemslinear

constant-coefficient difference or differential equation, frequency response, transfer
function, and impulse responseand infer one representation from another (e.g.,
determine the impulse response from the difference equation, etc.).

Understand the conditions for a time-domain function to have a Fourier transform, and
know how to relate the Fourier transform to its Laplace or Z transform.

Understand the various properties of the four Fourier transforms, the Laplace transform,
and the Z transformincluding time-shift, modulation (frequency shift), duality,
symmetry and anti-symmetryand exploit them to analyze and design signals and
systems.

Understand the properties, as well the analysis and design implications, of

interconnections of LTI systemsparallel, series (cascade), and feedbackin the time
and transform domains.

Know how to derive and exploit basic concepts in communication theory, including
amplitude modulation and frequency modulation.

Understand how to use the unilateral Laplace or Z transform to decompose the response
of an LTI system into a zero-state component and a zero-input component, and solve
linear, constant-coefficient differential or difference equations, with possibly non-zero
initial conditions.

Develop reasonably-accurate mathematical models for physical systems, find LTI

approximations to the models, produce block-diagram implementations of the
mathematical models, and analyze the block diagram realizations with a view toward
designing more complex systems or more sophisticated models.