The course will be taught in Spanish, but all teaching materials will be in English.

Evaluation

Students shall be offered two evaluation systems: continuous assessment or evaluation at the end of the semester.

Continuous assessment

The continuous assessment of the course will consist in:

• 5 individual practices developed on the DSP development board. These practices will account for 70% of the final grade.
• 1 project to be carried out in group that will account for 20% of the final grade.
• A written exam encompassing all the material exposed in the classroom and in the laboratory. It will take place in the dates scheduled by the school. It will account for 10% of the final grade.

The final qualification of the student will be computed as a weighted sum (70%, 20% and 10%,respectively) of the qualifications of laboratory, group project and final exam.

The contents and the weight of each continuous assessment exercise are the following:

• Introduction: signal generation using look-up tables (10%)
• Signal generation using polynomials (15%)
• FIR filter programming (15%)
• IIR filter programming (I) (15%)
• IIR filter programming (II) (15%)
• Project: (20%)

The laboratory and group project will be considered mandatory for all students who chose continuos assessment.

It will be considered that the student has chosen continuous assessment upon submision of  the first three practices. The choice of continuous assessment means that the student can not have a final grade of "Not presented".

Global assessment

1. Ordinary exam. Should a student decide not to be graded through continuous assessment,he will have a written examination opportunity that will take place thesame day of the final exam for all the students. The exam will cover all the material mastered in the classroom and the laboratory. Students should communicate their intention to renounce to be graded through continuous assessment at least a week before the date of the final exam.
2. Extraordinary exam. Students who do not pass the course at the end of the semester have an opportunity to retest on the end of the academic year. Previously to the exam, students will be asked to choose to be evaluated by continuous assessment system or only by the final exam. In the former case, they will have the opportunity to improve the continuous assessment grade by means of redoing and improving selected practices.
3. End-of-program exam. The student will have a written examination covering all the material mastered in the classroom and the laboratory.

Ethical code

Plagiarism is regardedas serious dishonest behavior. If any form of plagiarism is detected in any of the tests, the final grade will be FAIL (0), and the incident willbe reported to the corresponding academic authorities for prosecution.