ECE 210 - Analog Signal Processing

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
AB1 LAB 1000 - 1150 M   234 Everitt Lab  Benjamin Chidester
AB2 LAB 1000 - 1150 M   234 Everitt Lab  Benjamin Chidester
AB3 LAB 1200 - 1350 M   234 Everitt Lab  Andrew Millard
AB4 LAB 1200 - 1350 M   234 Everitt Lab  Andrew Millard
AB5 LAB 1400 - 1550 M   234 Everitt Lab  Andrew Millard
AB6 LAB 1400 - 1550 M   234 Everitt Lab  Andrew Millard
AB7 LAB 1600 - 1750 M   234 Everitt Lab  Suhail Barot
AB8 LAB 1600 - 1750 M   234 Everitt Lab  Suhail Barot
AB9 LAB 1800 - 1950 T   234 Everitt Lab  Pablo Reyes
ABA LAB 1800 - 1950 W   234 Everitt Lab  Pablo Reyes
ABB LAB 1800 - 1950 W   234 Everitt Lab  Pablo Reyes
AL1 LEC 0900 - 0950 MTW F   218 Ceramics Building  Jont Allen
AL2 LEC 1000 - 1050 MTW F   1310 Digital Computer Lab  Tangul Başar
AL3 LEC 1300 - 1350 MTW F   165 Everitt Lab  Timothy Trick

Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece210/
Official Description Introduction to analog signal processing, with an emphasis on underlying concepts from circuit and system analysis: linear systems, review of elementary circuit analysis, differential equation models of linear circuits and systems, Laplace transform, convolution, stability, phasors, frequency response, Fourier series, Fourier transform, active filters, and AM radio. Credit is not given for both ECE 210 and ECE 211. Prerequisite: ECE 110 and PHYS 212; credit or concurrent registration in MATH 285 or MATH 286.
Hours 4 hours.
Subject Area Signal Processing
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 110
Credit in PHYS 212
Credit or concurrent registration in MATH 285 or MATH 286
Course Directors Erhan Kudeki
Description Introduction to analog signal processing, with an emphasis on underlying concepts from circuit and system analysis: linear systems, review of elementary circuit analysis, differential equation models of linear circuits and systems, Laplace transform, convolution, stability, phasors, frequency response, Fourier series, Fourier transform, active filters and AM radio.

Preview ECE 210
Notes Students may not receive credit for both ECE 211 and 210.
Credit 4 hours
Goals To introduce fundamentals of analog signal processing, with major emphasis on circuit analysis, differential equations, convolutions, Fourier methods, and applications in filtering and AM radio.
Topics
  • Examples of signals and signal processing systems
  • Analog linear time-invariant systems
  • Circuits and linear systems
  • Review of DC circuit analysis: KCL, KVL, dependent sources
  • Capacitors and inductors as circuit elements
  • Op-amp circuits
  • Characterization and solution of LSI systems via linear, constant-coefficient differential equations
  • Complex numbers and functions of a complex variable
  • Impedance, phasors, and sinusoidal steady-state
  • Frequency response and multi-frequency circuits
  • Fourier Series
  • Fourier transform
  • AM radio
  • Convolution
  • Impulse and impulse response
  • Sampling theorem and overview of digital signal processing
  • Stability
  • Laplace transform and transfer function
  • Laplace transform solution of differential equations
  • General form of solution to a differential equation
  • Design of active filters
Course Prerequisites ECE 110 and PHYS 212; credit or concurrent registration in MATH 285 or MATH 286.
Topical Prerequisities
  • Calculus
  • Concurrent registration in differential equations
  • Physics-bases treatment of electricity and magnetism
  • Introductory exposure to circuit analysis
Texts E. Kudeki and D. C. Munson, Analog Signals and Systems, Prentice Hall, 2008.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 90%
Engineering Design: 10%