Digital signal processing with integrated circuits

Due to the high requirements of many digital signal processing applications, such as the demodulation of a cell phone signal in the baseband, these algorithms can often only be implemented with highly optimized integrated circuits. The design poses particular challenges for the chip or FPGA designer, as a trade-off must be found between signal quality, or quality of the result, and processing speed, energy consumption and chip area (logic resources).

The course introduces important algorithms of digital signal processing and discusses various architectures for their realization. The basics taught in the lecture sections are put into practice in group exercises using the software tool Matlab.

Please also refer to the course notice.

The course is aimed primarily at computer scientists, electrical engineers and mechatronics engineers with a focus on "technical computer science" or with an interest in modern design methods of digital signal processing.

• Fundamentals of digital signal processing, VLSI and FPGAs
• Numerical representations
• Realization of arithmetic circuits
• Implementation concepts of data path-oriented algorithms
• Realization of selected components (digital filters, FFT )
• Concrete applications

Desirable but not necessary prerequisites are the VHDL course or an equivalent course as well as signal processing with microprocessors.

All materials (lecture slides, exercise sheets, ...) as well as a forum can be found in Moodle of the University of Kassel. Please log in to Moodle in any case, as current information is distributed via Moodle.

The course takes place in the summer semester on Tuesdays between 13:00 and 16:00 in room WA 0334 (seminar room FG).

Digital signal processing:

Oppenheim/Schafer; Zeitdiskrete Signalverarbeitung; 2nd edition (2004)
Kammeyer; Digitale Signalverarbeitung; 7th edition (2009)

FPGA & DSP:

U. Meyer-Baese; Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays; 3rd edition (2007)

VLSI & DSP:

K. K. Parhi; VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems; (1999)

Proof of performance is provided in the form of an oral examination. The exact modalities will be announced in the course.