ECE 210/211 – Analog Signal Processing | Summer 2025

Announcements

• Welcome to Summer 2025 offering of ECE 210/211!

• We will be using Gradescope for homework, labs and exam submissions, which can be accessed through Gradescope tab in Canvas

• IMPORTANT: Exams will be proctored on Zoom using two-device proctoring. This means you are required to have:

  • A computer for viewing the exam

  • A mobile device/tablet/second computer with camera for live video feed of your desk/workspace

  • Sufficient Internet connection to stream your live video feed

• Unless otherwise noted, all dates/times for this course refer to local time in Champaign, IL.

• IMPORTANT: For ECE 210 students, please order your lab kits at https://ece.illinois.edu/academics/ugrad/lab-kits BEFORE 6/13. Make sure you have your labs kits ready before the first lab.

About

ECE 210 is the first mathematically oriented course in the electrical and computer engineering curricula. The course begins by building on the circuit analysis concepts you learned in ECE 110 and then progresses into the more abstract world of Fourier and Laplace transforms. Much of what we will do will rely on your background in calculus. Our goal will be to apply mathematical tools to the analysis and design of signal processing systems, culminating in a thorough understanding of an AM radio receiver and the ability to design simple filters. ECE 210 deals with the processing of continuous-time, or analog signals. The follow-on course, ECE 310, covers the processing of sampled, or digital signals.

ECE 211 is the first half of ECE 210. (Chapters 1 through 6 in the course textbook).

Instructor

Teaching Assistants

Lectures

Recordings of lectures will be posted on Illinois Media Space.

Discussion Forum

You can get online help using Course Discussion Forum link on Canvas.

Prerequisites

ECE 110 and PHYS 212, credit or concurrent registration in MATH 285 or MATH 286

Topics: Calculus, concurrent registration in DiffEQ, physics-based treatment of electricity and magnetism, introductory exposure to circuit analysis

Textbook

E. Kudeki and D.C. Munson, Analog Signals and Systems, Prentice Hall, 2009. Corrections to the textbook (errata) [Amazon]

Useful Tables

Additional Notes

• An instructive applet on convolution

• Output termination

• Historical paper on Thevenin eqv.

• Historical paper on Norton eqv.

• Getting the angle of a complex number analytically, using MATLAB and Python

Grading Policy

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to abide by the University of Illinois Student Code.

Any academic integrity violations will result in a FAIR report. Furthermore, the penalty will be as follows:

• A score of 0 (zero) on the assignment or exam where the academic integrity violation occurred.

• A second offense results in a grade of F for the course.

• Note that the standard of proof for a finding of infraction is “more likely than not”. This means I only need to show with 51% certainty that you committed the offense for the allegations to go on your record.

The following is a partial list of academic integrity violations for this course:

• Copying homework or lab solutions from other students (working together and discussing is acceptable)

• Copying homework or lab solutions from past solutions

• Using websites such as Chegg and Course Hero or Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT while completing any course assignments or exams

• Using unauthorized materials during exams

• Communicating with any person during exams

• Discussing the exam with any person within 24 hours of exam completion

• Not an academic integrity violation: Distributing any course material without authorization. This includes uploading homeworks/solutions and exam solutions to web sites, or sharing these documents with people not enrolled in the course.

  • Although not an academic integrity violation, it is a violation of the law and I will refer you to U.S. Attorney's Office for prosecution under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act.