Course syllabus

SSY130 Applied Signal Processing  Q2 Fall 2025 (7.5 hp)
Department of Electrical Engineering

The full course PM:  ssy130_course_memo_2025.pdf

Schedule

An overview of the course activities can be found in the Gantt chart: SSY130_Gantt_Chart_2025.pdf

Schedule for lectures and tutorials can be found in TimeEdit. 

See the Canvas Calendar for other activities and deadlines.

Literature

•  T. McKelvey, SSY130 - Applied Signal Processing Lectures notes, 2024

• B. Mulgrew, P. Grant and J. Thompson. Digital Signal Processing - Concepts and Applications, (1st) and 2nd ed. Palgrave McMillan (1999) 2003, E-book

Lecture Material

Lecture material

Hand in problems

• Hand in problem 1
• Hand in problem 2
• Hand in problem 3

Projects

• Project 1A: Alternative I: Acoustic Communication - Baseband Equalization
• Project 1B: Alternative I: Acoustic Communication - Interpolation, Modulation, Demodulation and Decimation
• Project 1A: Alternative II: Analysis of ECG signals - Noise suppression and heart rate estimation
• Project 1B: Alternative II: Analysis of ECG signals - Heart rate variability
• Project 2: Adaptive Noise Cancellation

Tutorials

• Tutorials

DSP-kit Setup Event

DSP-kit Setup Event

Past Exams

• Past exams

General consultation times: 

LB: Liping Bai.
AR: Amritha Rajan.
AP: Akshay Vayal Parambath.
JR: José Miguel Mateos Ramos.

Physical rooms and links to the Zoom-rooms used for consultation can be found in Canvas calendar. 

We encourage you to ask questions that are general and relevant for more students in the discussion forum.

Student representatives and course evaluation 

UTBYTE  v2ananda@uwaterloo.ca   Varuhn Anandaraj
MPEES   leonardfroling@gmail.com        Leonard Fröling
MPMOB   vinaymh.07@gmail.com    Vinay Mallikarjun Hiremath
MPICT   Yongbo.Liu123@outlook.com       Yongbo Liu
MPICT   wuhaojia0109@gmail.com  Haojia Wu

You can read more about the course evaluation process here.