Signals and (Transfer) Systems

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Course informations

Study program level Undergraduate
Study program Electrical Engineering
Study program direction Telecommunications and informatics
Course year 1.
Course semester II
Course status Core
ECTS 6
Lectures (h) 30
Excercises (h) 30
Seminars (h) -

Course objectives

Students will master the basic knowledge of discrete and continuous signals and systems required in electrical engineering and other related branches and areas. They will also gain practical skills through the exercises in analyzing and simulating the signals and systems.

Course outcomes

  • To classify the signals and to explain the difference between different types of signals
  • To explain the differences between different types of systems.
  • To explain and compare Fouirer’s, Laplace’s, and z-transformation.
  • To determine the response time in a time domain.
  • To apply Laplace’s and z-transformation while determining the response time in a LTI system.
 

Course content

Basic concepts and classification of signals and systems. Signal Properties. Timed Continuous Signals, Sampling and Quantization of Signals, Discretization of Time-Continuous Signals, Time-Discrete Signals. Basic system properties. Representation of digital signals. Examples of different types of signal in communication. Characterization of impulse response, convolution of continuous linear time constant systems. Responses to continuous linear time constant systems. Properties of convection. Impulse response of LTI system. Pulse response properties and convolution sums. Causality. Properties of convolutional summation. Impulse response and discrete time constant system properties. Representation of periodic functions. Fourier's line. Frequency spectrum of aperiodic signals. Fourier transformation. Laplace's transformation. DTFT, DFT. z-transform. Convergence and basic properties of z-transformation. Inverse z-transformation.
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