Digital signal processing (DSP) plays a pivotal role in many modern systems. Signal processing is concerned with the analysis, modification, and synthesis of signals. DSP processes the signals digitally where they are represented and manipulated as sequences of numbers. This course aims to give students the fundamentals of DSP as well as exploring some important and illustrative applications in digital circuits and digital communication.

Course content includes least squares digital filter design and realisation, finite word length effects, random processes, adaptive filters, linear prediction, multi-rate signal processing, time-frequency analysis, sub-band transforms and wavelets. Applications may include tone detection, noise reduction, pitch estimation, etc.