Corrections to the Text and the Lecture Notes

Corrections to Textbook
Corrections to Lecture Notes
Corrections to Assignment Solutions

Corrections are shown in the order they were reported. Corrections to previous corrections (!) are also given below. Please let me know if you find an error that is not listed below.

Corrections to the Textbook

Un-Corrections

This section lists corrections previous posted that turned out to be unnecessary.

Corrections to Lecture Notes

  • FFT - Part 2, page 1. If we consider the lower 4-point DFT box to be a single operation the inputs are x1, x3, x5 and x7. When we ``open up'' the 4-point DFT box and see how it is decimated into two 2-point DFTs, the inputs to the top 2-point DFT are x1 and x5 and to the lower DFT the inputs are x3 and x7.
    If we were to label the inputs to the 4-point DFT as y0, y1, y2 and y3 (i.e. y0 = x1, y1 = x3, etc) then the inputs to the top 2-point DFT are y0 and y2 and those to the lower 2-point DFT are y1 and y3.
  • z-Transform, page 3. The diagram and signal flow graph show the feedback coefficients as b1, b2 and b3. To agree with the notation given in the notes these should be -b1, -b2 and -b3.
    The exercise should start "If a0=1 and and the bk's are zero..." and "If the only non-zero b coefficient is ...".
    If b1=1 the impulse response is {1,-1,1,-1,...} if b1=-1 the impulse response is {1,1,1,1,...}.

    Corrections to Solutions

  • Solutions to Assignment 1, Question 3. The equation for the step size is correct but the equation evaluates to 76 microvolts, not 839. I computed 55/(2^16-1) rather than 5/(2^16-1) (the '5' key on my calculator ``bounces'').
  • Solutions to Assignment 4, Question 4. The signal flow graph does not correspond to the equation transfer function in the solution. The correct flow graph does not have a direct branch between x(n) and y(n) since this would correspond to a term of '1' in the numerator.
  • Solutions to Mid-Term Review Assignment. Question 1: the level of the impulses shown in the sketch of the spectrum should be 5/2 and 3/2 rather than 5 and 3. Question 6: the twiddle factors of j and -j shown in the signal flow graph should be -j and j instead. Question 8(a): the transfer function also has a pole at zero.
  • Solutions to Assignment 1, Question 3. The equation for the transfer function of the zero-order hold is wrong. It should be H(f) = T sinc(Tf) = T sin(pi T f)/(pi f T). The numerical values of |H(f)| in the table will be different but the general shape of the graph will remain the same.
  • Solutions to Assignment 2, Question 6. The values of the twiddle factors were computed using W^-k rather than W^k so the values of the imaginary components of the twiddle factors should be negated.
  • Solutions to Mid-Term, Question 3. The value of |H(z)| for f=omega=0 is |H(z=1)| = 4/0.2 = 20, not |H(z=0)|=1.25.
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