ECE-2025 COMPUTER LAB ASSIGNMENTS

ECE-2025 COMPUTER LAB ASSIGNMENTS

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ECE-2025 Lab Assignments
Spring-2011




The labs are posted in Adobe’s PDF format. You may
obtain a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader for
free from http://www.adobe.com.


Special instructions are noted on each assignment.

In general, Lab reports are due one week after doing the supervised warm-up.

Lab reports are due at the beginning of lab;
Labs turned in later on the same day will lose 5 points.


Please get the **LATEST** SP-First Toolbox M-files from
this link,
which includes instructions for un-zipping and putting these files at the APPROPRIATE location on your MATLAB path.



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**
NOTE: The FAQs were created from questions and comments on the labs during
the previous semester(s).
Thus, there might be some differences in cross-referencing
sections of the labs for this semester.
Description Lab Dates FAQ** Supporting Material & Links
Lab #1

Intro to MATLAB
24-27 Jan 11 FAQ

Getting Started with MATLAB
(2.6 Megabyte PDF file from Mathworks)


Little Bits of MATLAB
(Old MATLAB tutorial)


Another MATLAB Tutorial
(written by Prof. Heck of ECE)

SINDRILL should be on the MATLAB path in the ECE-2025 Lab, or you
can install it with the SP-First Toolbox (above).

** Peer Evaluation Form for Teamwork
will be found under Tests & Quizzes.

Lab #2

Complex Exponentials
31-Jan to 3-Feb No FAQ
Cell-mode will be used during the warm-up: there several movies on the wed, and a description is
here.
<!–
Tutorial movie about MATLAB’s notebook capability
Notebook Movie
–>
Please get the

latest ZIP file
of the SP-First M-files.
Lab #3

AM & FM Signals
7-10 Feb No FAQ available

coscos.m is here


**Please bring headphones to lab
<!–
** 5-Feb, 11pm, Warm-up Only. The rest of the lab will be posted SOON.
–>
Lab #4

Speech Synthesis
14-17 Feb No FAQ available
** 18-Feb, 9am, Lab-4A and 4B.

Two Lab Reports Required, one informal (Lab-4A, 50pts),
one Formal (Lab-4B worth 150 points).

<!–

** This posting has everything.
–>
Here is the archive containing getSines2011.p and the two signals:
Lab04s11.zip.

Please bring MICROPHONE and headphones to lab.
<!–
Download testing file testSigSynth_f06.p

Run the file by typing testSigSynth_f06 at the MATLAB prompt

–>

Lab #5

A/D and D/A Conversion
21-24 Feb No FAQ available
No Lab report. Warm-up only, so this must be done entirely in-Lab at your scheduled lab time.

** Worth 50 points**

==> Use the Sinusoidal-FM function that you wrote in Lab #3.
Lab #6

Digital Images: A/D and D/A
1-7 Mar Old Lab-5 FAQ
Uses an image data file in PNG binary format:
lighthouse.png.

Download the lighthouse.zip archive.
Un-zip to get the PNG file.

Some useful information is available for
printing-multiple-images.
Lab #7

Decoding UPC Bar Codes
8-14 Mar Old Lab-6 FAQ
Download the Lab07stuffSP11.zip archive.
Un-zip to get the PNG files and the p-code file.

DCONVDEMO should be on the MATLAB path in the
ECE-2025 Lab, or you can install it with the SP-First Toolbox (above).
<!–
** This posting (2pm, Sunday) has ONLY the Warm-up; the rest is coming soon.
–>
Lab #8

Frequency Response GUI
15-28 Mar No FAQ available

** Warm-up ONLY, worth 50 points**

DLTIDEMO should be on the MATLAB path in the ECE-2025 Lab.
Lab #9

PEZ and FIR Filter Design
29-Mar to 4-Apr No FAQ available

PEZDEMO should be on the MATLAB path in the ECE-2025 Lab.
Lab #10

Cochlear Implant Filterbank Simulation
5-11 Apr No FAQ available
Please bring headphones to lab.
<!–
**So far, only Warm-up is posted; the rest is coming soon**
–>

Here is the archive containing test signals:
Lab10s2011.zip.

Formal Lab Report Required.
Worth 150 points.


A demo of your working system will be required when you turn in the lab report.
Lab #11

Convolution GUI for Continuous-Time
13-19 Apr No FAQ available
No Lab report. Warm-up only, so this must be done entirely in-Lab at your scheduled lab time.

** Worth 50 points**

cconvdemo is part of the SP-First Toolbox (above).
<!–, CLTIDEMO, and fseriesdemo are part of the SP-First Toolbox (above). –>
Lab #12

Remove Interference from ECG Signals
20-26 Apr No FAQ available
Lab12data_S11.zip file
contains a p-code file: ECGmakeS11.p and a data file
ECGdataS11.mat

**Lab is worth 50 points.

No Lab report. Warm-up only, so this must be done entirely
in-Lab at your scheduled lab time.