ECE-2025 Computer Lab Projects
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List of ECE-2025
Lab Projects
Lab Description | Dates for Lab | FAQ** | Support Material |
Lab #1 MATLAB Intro | 28-Aug to 31-Aug | Lab-1 FAQ | Getting Started with MATLAB (1.1 Mb PDF file from Mathworks web site) <A Little Bits of MATLAB (Old MATLAB tutorial) Another MATLAB Tutorial (written by Prof. Heck) |
Lab #2 Complex Exponentials | 5-11 Sept | Lab-2 FAQ | Matrix Multiply review |
Lab #3 Harmonic Signals & Musical Notes | 12-18 Sept | Lab-3 FAQ | Vectorization Help Matrix Multiply review |
Lab #4 Harmonic Signals & Musical Notes | 19-25 Sept | Lab-4 FAQ | coscos.m (test file for debugging in the warm-up). Song is “Turkey In The Straw” Uses two data files in MATLAB binary format: turkeynotes.mat contains information about key numbers and durations for the entire song. turkeyshort.mat contains only the first 4 measures (useful for debugging). Data is stored in a MATLAB structure called theNotes. Download this turkey.zip archive. Un-zip to get turkeynotes.mat and turkeyshort.mat Sheet Music for Turkey in the Straw How to Plot the Spectrogram as an Image M-file to plot the Spectrogram. Get the new spectgr.m also from the M-files link. Help on Structures in MATLAB |
Lab #5 Images: Sampling & Reconstruction | 26-Sept to 2-Oct | Lab-5 FAQ | Barbara Image in a ZIP file Also as a barbara.mat file How to print multiple images on the same page for comparison. show_img.m is the M-file to display images It can be found in the DSP-First Toolbox Also, lenna.mat is in the DSP-First Toolbox. |
Lab Quiz #1 at the beginning of lab. Lab #6 FIR Filtering of Images | 3-9 Oct | Lab-6 FAQ | Uses lab6dat.mat which is from the DSP-First CD-ROM. or in this lab6dat.zip archive. Un-zip to get lab6dat.mat |
Lab Quiz #2 at the beginning of lab. Lab #7 Frequency Response: Nulling Filters | 10-16 Oct | Lab-7 FAQ | Uses sp7f00.mat which has the corrupted speech signal. Un-zip the sp7f00.zip archive. to get sp7f00.mat |
Lab #8 Octave Decoding with Bandpass Filters | 17-30 Oct | Lab-8 FAQ | Uses lab8test.mat which has the input tones. Un-zip the lab8test.zip archive. to get lab8test.mat |
Lab #9 Three GUIs | 31 Oct – 6 Nov | No FAQ available | The GUIs can be downloaded from: Jordan Rosenthal’s page. The following links are direct FTPs: Latest LTIdemo ver1.14 ZIP file Latest Discrete-time convdemo ver 2.03 ZIP file Latest Continuous-time cconvdemo ver2.00 ZIP file |
Lab Quiz #3 at the beginning of lab. Lab #10 Numerical Evaluation of Fourier Series | 7-13 Nov | Lab-10 FAQ | |
Lab #11 Design with Fourier Series Graded out of 150 pts. | 14-20 Nov | Lab-11 FAQ not available | |
Lab #12 AM Communication | 28-Nov to 1-Dec | Lab-12 FAQ not available |
**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.