A Real-Time Signal Processing Laboratory for Undergraduate Instruction

现在开设了两门新的信号处理高级选修课，重点是数字滤波器设计和生物医学信号处理与系统。这个新的本科课程强调信号处理，需要一个能够提供信号处理实际应用经验的实验室。正在开发一个实时信号处理实验室，以支持说明两门新的高级选修课和所需的初级滤波器设计课程所涵盖的概念和技术的实验和项目。重点将集中在学生教育项目，涉及各种信号的处理，包括语音，音乐，地震，生物医学和视频。实验室的经验将是在采集和处理这些信号。该实验室还将作为超大规模集成电路信号处理架构的测试平台。该实验室以一台中央服务器计算机为基础，通过以太网与工作站和个人计算机联网。个人计算机将用于获取和处理时间信号，并用于低级处理和显示服务器获取的图像。

Two new senior electives in signal processing with emphasis on digital filter design and biomedical signal processing and systems are now being offered. This new undergraduate program emphasis in signal processing requires a laboratory that would provide experience in working on practical applications of signal processing. A real-time signal processing laboratory that would support the experiments and projects illustrating the concepts and techniques covered in the two new senior electives and in the required junior-level course in filter design is being developed. Emphasis will center on student educational projects involving the processing of a variety of signals including speech, music, seismic, biomedical, and video. The laboratory experience will be in the acquisition as well as in the processing of these signals. The laboratory would also serve as a test bed for VLSI signal processing architectures. The laboratory is based on a central server computer networked via Ethernet to workstations and personal computers. Personal computers will be used for the acquisition and processing of temporal signals and for low level processing and display of images that have been acquired by the server.