AN INNOVATIVE COURSE EMPHASIZING REAL-TIME DIGITAL SIGNAL-PROCESSING APPLICATIONS

This paper presents an innovative undergraduate real-time digital sign al processing (DSP) course, Digital Signal Processors, which emphases hands-on experiments and practical applications. It enables students t o experiment with sophisticated DSP applications to augment the theore tical, conceptual, and analytical material provided in their first DSP course, Digital Filter Design. The inclusion of both software and har dware developmental experiences permits undergraduates to undertake a wide range of real-time DSP projects in their required Senior Engineer ing Design course. This paper briefly introduces representative exampl es of some challenging DSP applications, such as acoustic echo cancell ation, active noise control, and image compression.