Teaching Digital Signal Processing

AbstractAn undergraduate level laboratory course on digital signal processing (DSP) is described. The primary purpose of the laboratory is a better understanding of the theoretical concepts, and to let the students experience actual DSP happening in real-time, using real devices. The paper describes the experience of one institution in the teaching of applied signal processing. The paper will be of interest to those teaching DSP related courses at undergraduate level, such as Introduction to DSP, Real-time DSP, and the Fundamentals of DSP. The low-cost dsPICPRO4 DSP development kit is used as the fundamental tool in the laboratory experiments