This course focuses on the fundamentals of digital signal processing that covers the fundamentals of signals, systems and transforms.

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We live in a world filled with signals which can be represented by sequences of numbers in a digital machine. These sequences of numbers can be manipulated by algorithms and have numerous applications in audio, images, video, wireless transmission and countless other domains. 

In this course, you’ll understand the field of digital signal processing with a focus on the design and analysis of signals, and algorithms. You’ll cover the DSP fundamentals of signals, systems and transforms. You’lll learn about the basic signal types and perform different operations. You’ll develop an understanding about the frequency domain and how to represent signals in time, and the transformation from one domain to the other using the Fourier transform. You’ll also learn about digital systems. Finally, you’ll develop a practical OFDM system focusing on modulation and demodulation.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to model, analyze and design signals and systems in greater depth, in the time and frequency domains.

Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing

No computer can plot a continuous-time sine wave. When we see such a figure on our screen, it’s in fact an interpolated version of a discrete-time sine wave in which the samples are joined together with straight lines.

## A discrete-time sinusoid

To understand this idea, let’s generate another sinusoid but with a low sample rate. Here, we don’t join the individual samples to display the discrete-time signals, as shown below:

No computer can plot a continuous-time sine wave. When we see such a figure on our screen, it’s in fact an interpolated version of a discrete-time sine wave in which the samples are joined together with straight lines.

# A discrete-time sinusoid

To understand this idea, let’s generate another sinusoid but with a low sample rate. Here, we don’t join the individual samples to display the discrete-time signals, as shown below:

Explore how a unit impulse signal forms the fundamental unit of discrete-time signals.

Introduction to Signals

Basic Signals and Operations

Complex Signals and the Frequency Domain

Sampling a Signal

The Discrete Fourier Transform

Fourier Transform Properties

Digital Systems

Putting It All Together: An OFDM Modem

Demodulating an OFDM Signal Stream

The Last Words

Bibliography

A Unit Impulse Signal

A discrete-time sinusoid