A MATLAB-based digital signal processing laboratory course

This paper describes a computer-based DSP laboratory course that supplements a lecture course on the subject. The course consists of a series of laboratory exercises with each exercise containing a number of projects to be carried out on a computer. The programming language used in this course is MATLAB, widely used for high-performance numerical computation and visualization. Each exercise consists of a series of projects with each project followed by a series of questions the student must answer before embarking on the following project. The questions have been designed to ensure that the student understands the basic principles of the topic under investigation or the key features of the program. In some projects, the student is asked to modify the program to perform other experiments or determine the effect of new MATLAB commands. Each exercise also includes in the beginning a section summarizing the materials necessary for a quick review of DSP materials necessary to carry out the projects included in the exercise. Another novel feature of this laboratory is that the report for each exercise is partly written and stored in the computer. The student adds the results of his/her project as he/she continues with the series of the projects and also provides the answers to the questions after each project is completed. This feature permits the student to complete more work in a specified amount of time than that would have been possible without it. The completed laboratory report can also serve as a guide for writing reports in other laboratory courses.