January 11, 2003 (Saturday)
CE 101: Various Announcements
Midterm Project Evaluation:
Evaluation will be done in F-311 from 2:40 to 6:20 pm of Jan 14 and 16. You should have ready in the lab all the material you will need in the evaluation before 2:40 pm of the day when your evaluation is scheduled. You will need soft copies of drafts of your final report, and every evidence you have to give a clear picture of what you have been doing. This might include source codes and executables of software you've developed, (soft copies of) data and figures you've generated, reference materials downloaded, schematics, manuals, sample outputs, and so on.
The evaluation will serve to verify progress reports you have submitted so far, and assess your performance with respect to the goals and timetable set forth in your proposals.
Progress Reports:
A progress report is due on Jan 16, regardless of when your midterm project evaluation is.
Progress reports should be summaries of what has been done since the last progress report. For most cases a well-written report of at most two pages per person should be enough. In general, it is not necessary to include pages of source codes, copies of material found from references, or pages of data and figures generated in the course of your work. It would be better to describe what code you wrote and give an assessment of the relevance of material you researched. Data and figures generated should be included in the final report, along with full descriptions of their significance.
First Exam:
The exam will be on January 21, 2003 as originally scheduled. Coverage will be all lectures and lab exercise we've had so far. Material covered in the book are mostly within sections 1.1 thru 3.5, and section 4.5.7. You should be able to answer questions regarding:
- sampling of signals, sampling frequency, sampling period, Nyquist rate, aliasing
- digital sinusoidal oscillators
- use of circular buffers and use of fixed point numbers in the 'C542
- difference equations, system functions, LTI systems, impulse responses, convolution, causality, linearity, time-invariance, and how these ideas are interrelated
- Z-transforms and one-sided Z-transforms and their relation to causal LTI systems
- any interrelationships among the topics listed above.
The exam will consist of 5 questions each rated over 10 pts. The exam will be 10% of your final grade.
Lab Exercise 7:
The lab exercise will be posted on or before January 21 and evaluated on January 28, as scheduled.