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ECE-2025 Lab Assignments
Spring-2006
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 SP-First Toolbox M-files from
this link.
Un-zip and put these files at the BEGINNING of your MATLAB path.
Labs
Description | Lab Dates | FAQ** | Supporting Material & Links |
Lab #1 Intro to MATLAB | 17-23 Jan 06 | 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) |
Lab #2 Complex Exponentials | 24-30 Jan | FAQ | There is yet another capability for making MS-Word compatible files in MATLAB v7. We will not require its use during the warm-up, but a description is here. Tutorial movie about MATLAB’s notebook capability in a ZIP file (9.8Mb). Unzip to get the AVI file which should be viewed with Camtasia Player which can be obtained here: camplay.exe in a ZIP file. Please get the latest ZIP file of the SP-First M-files. |
Lab#3 AM & FM Signals | 31-Jan to 6-Feb | No FAQ available | Please bring headphones to lab |
Lab #4 Synthesize Shepard’s Scale | 7-13 Feb | No FAQ available | Please bring headphones to lab. Formal Lab Report Required. Worth 150 points. <!– Link to Chowning’s paper –> |
Lab #5 Digital Images: A/D and D/A | 15-21 Feb | Lab-5 FAQ | coscos.m (test file for debugging in the Warm-up). Uses an image data file in PNG binary format: lighthouse.png Download this lighthouse.zip archive. Un-zip to get the PNG file. Some useful information is available in printing-multiple-images. |
Lab #6 Digital Images: Edge Detection | 22-28 Feb | Lab-6 FAQ | Data file is lab06s06dat.zip which contains the CourseInfo.png and crab.png image data files in PNG binary format. CON2DIS and DCONVDEMO should be on the MATLAB path in the ECE-2025 Lab, or you can install them with the SP-First Toolbox (above). |
Lab #7 (new 2-Mar) Frequency Content of Images | 1-7 Mar | Lab-6 FAQ might be applicable | **** Section 4.1 updated for clarity on 2-Mar **** DLTIDEMO should be on the MATLAB path in the ECE-2025 Lab <!– , or you can download it from the GUI page Data file is Lab08s06dat.zip file –> |
Lab #8 Filter Design | 8-14 Mar | Old Lab-7 FAQ is applicable | Data file is Lab08s06dat.zip file A new version of the FILTERDESIGN GUI should be on the MATLAB path in the ECE-2025 Lab, or you can download it from here filterdesign_v150.zip Installation requires that you remove filterdesign from the MATLAB path, then restart MATLAB and add filterdesign back to the MATLAB path. <!– DLTIDEMO should be on the MATLAB path in the ECE-2025 Lab, or you can download it from the GUI page –> |
Lab #9 (part one) PeZ GUI intro | 15-28 Mar | No FAQ available | No Lab report. Warm-up only, so this must be done entirely in-Lab at your scheduled lab time. The latest PeZ has the “ray” feature enabled. |
Lab #9 (part two) PeZ: 2nd-order IIR BPF | 29-Mar to 4-Apr | No FAQ available | This part is worth 100 points; the first part of Lab #9 was 50 points. |
Lab #10 Touch-Tone Dialing/Detection | 5-11 Apr | Old Lab-8 FAQ | Formal lab report (150 points) ***** Data file lab10s06data.zip file now posted. <!– Support file is lab09f04support.zip file. It also contains the onefreq.p function (p-code format). *** Lab #9 report due during the week of 9-Nov –> |
Lab #11 Continuous-Time GUIs | 12-18 Apr | No FAQ available | CLTIDEMO, CCONVDEMO, and FSERIESDEMO should be on the MATLAB path in the ECE-2025 Lab. |
Lab #12 Remove Interference from ECG Signals | 24-27 Apr | No FAQ available | Lab12s06files.zip file contains two files, a p-code file: ECGmake06.p and a data file Lab12ECGdata.mat No Lab report. Warm-up only, so this must be done entirely in-Lab at your scheduled lab time. In addition, please complete 3 surveys: 2 GT course evals and our own Web-CT survey. |