Location
ECS108 (Monday & Thursday 10:00 - 11:30)

Course Home Page
http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~gtzan/elec484/Summer2007

The course homepage will be used to post materials covered in class and post pertinent updates. It is the students responsibility to check the website often to stay up to date on class information and to get course assignments.

Topics to be Discussed
Fundamentals: Filters, A/D, oversampling converters, jitter, dither, spectral analysis.
Formats: CD, DVD, SACD. Perceptual coding: MP3, AAC.
Sound synthesis: modal, additive, subband vocoder, subtractive, LPC, non-linear, FM, physical modelling, granular.
Spatial audio, surround sound. Noise reduction.
Systems and applications.

Assignments
- Assignments will be posted on the course website.
- Assignments must be submitted on the due date. No late assignments will be accepted.
- All assignments are lengthy!!! It will be difficult to complete them if they are left to the last moment.

Assessment
Assignments.....35%
Midterm...........35%
Final Project....30%

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