ECEN 5808 - Advanced Signals and Systems
Fall 2026 Syllabus, Section 02, CRN 42650,
Credit hours: 3
Course Meeting Times
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Instructor
Ghassan Salim
Email: gsalim@ysu.edu
Course Description
Course Readings
| Group | Title | Author | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Required | Signal Processing And Linear Systems | B.P. Lathi | 978-0-19-029904-0 |
| Required | Instructor Class Notes | ||
| Optional | Hands-On Introduction to LabVIEW for Scientists and Engineers | John Essick | 9780190853068 |
The course readings are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances, research developments, current events, and/or to ensure better learning.
Assignments/Assessments
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Schedule of Topics and Assignments
| Week of | Reading(s) | Proposed Topic | Due/To Prepare for Class |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/24 | Data Acquisition Basics | Elements of a LabVIEW VI, Palettes, DAQ building blocks | Construct first virtual instument- Thermometer |
| 8/31 | Virtual Instument | Control, Editing, Debugging, Propoerty nodes Data Flow, sample compression, Data Types |
Build second VI on Data Compression |
| 9/7 | Virtual instument - Advanced |
Loops, shift registers, feedback nodes, indexing and data tunneling SubVIs and hierarchy |
Build VIs using Loops and expand on the thermometer with use of subVIs |
| 9/14 | Virtual Instrument -Advanced, Continued | Clusters, Arrays, Array manipulations and operations, type casting, local and global variables | Challenge -1 DTMF design |
| 9/21 | Virtual Instruments - ADvanced - Continued | Grpahs and plots | AM-FM signal generation and representation in time anf frequency domains |
| 9/28 | Virtual Instruments - ADvanced - Continued | Event Triggered applications, State Machine | State Machine and Even Sturucture Project -1 |
| 10/5 | Exam 1 Project Creation and compiling |
Covers topics up to and including items of week 9/21 Understand how to make a project ready to deploy to a target |
In class exam and demo Project creation No.2 |
| 10/12 | Ch1 - Signals & Systems Ch2 |
signal classifications, signal decomposition, Time - Domain Analysis of CT Signals |
1.1-1, 1.1-3, 1.1-6,1.2-1, 1.2-2 2.2-12, 2.3-6,2.4-39 |
| 10/19 | Ch3 | Signal Representation by Fourier Series | 3.4-3 |
| 10/26 | Ch4 | Fourier Transform | 4.1-6, 4.1-7 |
| 11/2 | Exam 2 | Topics: Ch 1- Ch 4 | In Class Exam |
| 11/9 | Ch 7 Ch 8 |
Frequncy Reposne of Analog filters Discrete -Time Signals and Systems |
In Class assignment on Discrete - Time sytems |
| 11/16 | Ch 12 | Frequency Response and Digital Filters | Digital Filters Assignment No.1 |
| 11/23 | Ch 12 | Digital Filters - Continued | Announcement of Digital Filter project |
| 11/30 | Ch 12 | Digital Filters Project Discussion | Project Demonstration |
| 12/7 | Final Exam | Digital Filter Porject | Submit the Digital Filter Project by the due time |
The course schedule, policies, procedures, and assignments in this course are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances, by mutual agreement, and/or to ensure better learning.