A Simulink© and Texas instruments C6713® based digital signal processing laboratory

In this contribution1 a digital signal processing educational lab, established at the School of Electrical and Computers Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, Israel is presented. A unique educational approach is adopted. In this approach sophisticated algorithms can be implemented in an intuitive top-level design using Simulink©. Simultaneously, our approach gives the students the opportunity to conduct hands-on experiments with real signals and hardware, using Texas instruments (TI) C6713 evaluation boards. By taking this combined approach, we tried to focus the efforts of the students on the DSP problems themselves rather than on the actual programming. A comprehensive ensemble of experiments, which expose the students to a wide spectrum of DSP concepts, is introduced in this paper. The experiments were designed to enable the illustration and demonstration of theoretical aspects, already acquired by several DSP courses in the curriculum.