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The Open University

Electronic applications

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Overview

Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Take for example this free course, Electronic applications. An interactive website with videos and interactive software will show how electronic systems pervade everything we do; review some basic ideasof signal processing, control and communications; and allow you to use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal.  Transcript

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Electronics everywhere
  • 1 Electronics everywhere
  • 1.1 Three key subsystems
  • 2 Signal processing
  • 2 Signal processing
  • 2.1 Frequency-dependent gain
  • 2.2 Gain functions of ideal filters
  • 2.3 Types of interference
  • 2.4 First-order filters
  • 2.5 Normalised first-order low-pass filters
  • 2.6 The full Bode plot: gain and phase
  • 2.7 Chebyshev and Butterworth filters
  • 3 Digital signal processing
  • 3 Digital signal processing
  • 3.1 Digital filters
  • 3.2 Characteristics of discrete-time and continuous-time signals
  • 3.3 Sampling a continuous-time signal
  • 3.4 Quantisation of a signal
  • 3.5 Digital filtering in the time domain
  • 3.6 Designing a digital filter in the frequency domain
  • 3.7 Fourier transforms and the sinc pulse
  • 3.8 A low-pass filter design
  • 3.9 Digital filtering in practice
  • 3.10 Adding noise
  • 3.11 Changing the decision level
  • 3.12 Applying the FIR filter
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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