CEN 340 SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS

Mathematical description and classification of various signals and systems: introduction to mathematical software packages (e.g. MATLAB), continuous linear time-invariant systems, convolution and correlation, Fourier series and transforms, Laplace transform, applications to communication systems: signal modulation, signal bandwidth, channel bandwidth. 

The aim of the course is to provide an understanding of signals and systems; the ability to sketch and analyze signals, express them in terms of other basic signals and perform basic time-domain operations on them; perform convolution and understand LTI concepts; apply the basic definitions of the Fourier series, Fourier transform and Laplace transform; explain modulation and demodulation of AM, PM and FM systems and use MATLAB for the simulation of signals and systems.