EECE 301 NS - 01 Overview PDF
EECE 301 NS - 01 Overview PDF
EECE 301 NS - 01 Overview PDF
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Do All EE’s & CoE’s Design Circuits?
• No!!!! Someone has to figure out what function those
circuits need to do
• Someone also needs to figure out the “algorithms” needed
(i.e., mathematical “processing”)
• Someone also needs to figure out what the whole system
needs to do
Rely Heavily on
Mathematical Models
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Signals & Systems
• Because most “systems” are driven by “signals” EEs &
CoEs study what is called “Signals & Systems”
• “Signal” = a time-varying voltage (or other quantity)
that generally carries some information
• The job of the “System” is often to extract, modify,
transform, or manipulate that carried information
• So… a big part of “Signals & Systems” is using
math models to see what a system “does” to a signal
Physical System System Model
vin(t) vout(t)
Input x(t) Output y(t)
Audio
iPod System
Amplifier
Math
Voltage Electronics Function Math “Model” 3/6
Some Application Areas From Table 32.1 in Electrical Engineering
Uncovered, 2nd Ed., by White & Doering
In each of these areas you can’t build the electronics until your
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• Five Common Signals & Systems Scenarios:
– Given a system, determine a signal that will pass through it well
e.g., Communication Transmitter
– Given a type of signal, design a system that will pass it well
e.g., Audio Amplifier
– Design a system that will make a desired change to a signal
e.g., Audio Equalizer
– Design a system that will extract desired info from a signal
e.g., Radar System or Communication Receiver
– Design a system (and maybe signal) that gives a desired output
e.g., Control System…. such as cruise control for a car
external forces: fe(t)
The Car
t Forward
speed: v(t)
System
t
t
Feedback Cruise Control
control forces: fc(t) 5/6
Continuous-Time & Discrete-Time
• Modern systems generally…
– get a continuous-time signal from a sensor
– a cont.-time system modifies the signal
– an “analog-to-digital converter” (ADC or A-to-D) sample the signal to
create a discrete-time signal … a “stream of numbers”
– A discrete-time system to do the processing
– convert back to C-T signal with a “Digital-to-Analog Converter” (DAC)
x(t) x[n] x[n] is just a “stream
A time-varying
of numbers”
voltage (or current)
t n
Sensor Optional
Analog Digital Elec.
ADC DAC
Electronics (Computer)
Electrical Electrical
Physical Electrical C-T Electrical Electrical D-T Electrical Electrical
C-T C-T System C-T Signal D-T Signal System D-T Signal C-T Signal
Signal Signal
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