Course Catalog 2011-2012
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Course Catalog 2011-2012

TKT-3516 Signal Processors, 5 cr

Additional information

The course will be discontinued. The course is not lectured in the academic year 2011-2012, but it can still be taken based on self study.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Jarmo Takala

Requirements

Final exam and compulsory exercises.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

The student can classify the special features of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications and their effect on implementations and processor architectures. Especially, students can name the architectural features of fixed-point DSP processors and can develop a program with fractional data representation. The student can describe the evolution of DSP processors and can assess the applicability of general purpose processors in DSP tasks.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Number representations in fixed-point and floating-point processors.  Finite word length effects in applications.   
2. Processor architectures and assembly language programming for DSP applications.  ALU, overflow management.   
3. Memory architectures, interfacing, addressing and address computation.  Cache memories.  Parallel memories. 
4. Pipelining principles and their effect on programming.  time-stationary coding and interlocking.  data-stationary coding. 
5. RISC and CISC architectures, principles of parallel and sequential computing.  Data dependence, superscalar architecture, SIMD, SISD, MIMD.  Microcoded instruction decoding. 

Evaluation criteria for the course

The grade is based on the exam, exercise works, and active participation in the exercises.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   DSP Processor Fundamentals: Architectures and Features   P. Lapsley, J. Bier, A. Shoham, E.A. Lee   0-7803-3405-1          English  
Lecture slides     Jarmo Takala            English  

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
SGN-2016 Digital Linear Filtering I Advisable    
TKT-1202 Digitaalisuunnittelu Advisable    

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
TKT-3516 Signal Processors, 5 cr 8404151 Signal Processors, 3 cu  
TKT-3516 Signal Processors, 5 cr TKT-3517 DSP Implementations, 5 cr  

Documents

tkt-3516.pdf

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