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Digital Signal Processing

Module code: EEP55C05 · Semester: Semester 1

Resources​

Questions by Year​

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Topics

  • Signals and LTI systems (review) LO8
  • Sampling, reconstruction, decimation, interpolation, quantisation LO1
  • Digital filters and linear phase LO3
  • IIR and FIR filter design, including optimum FIR design LO2
  • Discrete Fourier series and the DFT and its properties LO4–5
  • FFT algorithms LO6
  • Random processes and spectral analysis with the DFT LO7
  • Filter realisations; DSP and deep learning LO2, LO8
Learning outcomes
  1. Use approaches to sampling and reconstruction
  2. Design and evaluate IIR and FIR filters and their trade-offs
  3. Explain the role of linear phase
  4. Relate the continuous-time Fourier transform to the DFT
  5. Discuss the properties of the DFT
  6. Explain fast DFT algorithms and their advantages
  7. Analyse signals with DFT-based spectral analysis
  8. Appreciate signal processing in modern system design
  9. Use reading and labs to deepen understanding

Summarised from the module descriptor, checked November 2026.