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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.
Labs
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. |
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. |