Guia docente 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Grado en Ingeniería de Tecnologías de Telecomunicación

Electronic Systems for Signal Processing

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Theory: Theme 1. Introduction	- Basic architecture of electronic signal processing systems: signal conditioning, sampling, conversion, and reconstruction.
Theory: Theme 2. Types of signal processing	-Different hardware and software solutions: DSP and FPGAs. -Processing types: Serial/Parallel, Hardware/Software. -Hardware cost of regular signal processing circuits. Logical resources used. Processing rate.
Theory: Theme 3. Arithmetic in DSP	-Data types. -Data modification: quantification and overflow. -Arithmetic operations and associated circuits. -Associated concepts: critical path, pipeline and latency.
Theory: Theme 4. Signal conditioning and sampling	- Example of a real signal conditioning and sampling system using a FPGA-based development board.
Theory: Theme 5. Design and Implementation of Digital Filters	- Implementation of digital filters in FPGA. - Analysis of full parallel and semi-parallel solutions: hardware costs, operation rates.
Theory: Theme 6. Design of audio processing systems	- Examples of audio processing systems. - Analysis of required hardware resources. - Implementation and performance analysis.
Theory: Theme 7. Design of image processing systems	- Examples of basic image processing systems. - Analysis of hardware resources required. - Implementation and performance analysis.
Labs: Design of basic signal processing systems.	- Design, implementation and verification of basic signal processing systems using VHDL: digital filters, communication applications, image processing, audio processing. - Using the ISE and/or Vivado design tool from Xilinx and MATLAB from MathWorks.