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Laboratory
Project 1
Waveform
Synthesis and Spectral Analysis
Suggestions
for a Good Laboratory Report
- The
following suggestions, specific to the various sections of your lab
report are meant to be a listing of minimum expectations.
- There is
a lot to discover about ECOMMS as you do the labs - so keep your eyes
and ears open - and record everything! (Also have fun...).
- Feel
free to experiment - i.e. do more than the suggested lab activity. This
will improve your lab score.
- You are
encouraged to observe and record more than the minimum suggested here -
this will also improve your lab score.
- Talk to
the instructor often - especially when you see/hear something that you
cannot explain.
Page 1. Cover
page
- Project Number
- Project Title.
- Course Number.
- Names of Group
Members.
- Date handed in.
Pages 2 - 5
- Objective
- Equipment and Software
used.
- List exactly
what you used.
- Approach (Theory)
- Provide
a description (with releveant mathematics) of
how random variable theory allows us to synthesize signals of arbitrary
SNR.
- Provide
a description (with relevant mathematics) of how the DFT can be used to
approximate the CFT. Under what conditions is the approximation valid?
- Part 1
and 3: What do we expect to see in the time and frequency
domains when we vary the SNR?
- Part 4: What
do we expect to see in the time and frequency domains?
- Procedure
- List
what you actually did.
Page 6 -
- Results (tables and
graphs)
- Matlab
figures of the time and spectral domain representations of the various
waveforms - label all axes.
- Discussion of Results
and Conclusions.
- Did you
hear and see what you expected in the time and spectral domains? If
not, why not?
- Why is
it important (and useful) to observe signals in the spectral domain?
How does the FFT allow us to do this?
- What
can the tecnhiques learned in this lab be
used for (as related to ECOMMS)?
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