Signals and Communications
ECE 156
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Description
This course is a follow-on to ECE 155 (ENG-SCI 155) and continues to develop the fundamentals of information systems in the real world. It focuses on the analysis and manipulation of signals in the time and frequency domains in the context of authentic applications. Topics include: the sampling theorem, convolution, and linear input-output systems in continuous and discrete time. Further, students are introduced to transforms—including Fourier, discrete cosine, wavelet, and PCA / SVD ‘transforms’—that map between vector spaces via matrix multiplication as a method to ease analysis provided conditionalized knowledge. Randomness, noise, and filtering. Waves and interference in the context of communications; antennae, phasors, modulation, multiplexing. Applications in communications and data science.
Course Notes
This course was formerly numbered Engineering Sciences 156 (ES 156).
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
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