ASTRON Training Week 3 was delivered as part of Work Package 3 (WP3) at the Ventspils University, Latvia, from Monday 12 to Friday 16 September 2016. The aim of the week was to provide a full scope of basic topics on digital signal processing and to push the student’s knowledge of DSP up to MSc-level.

The lectures were delivered in order to give sufficient background for later training weeks, in particular ASTRON Training Week 4 (in December 2017 in Latvia). The training was delivered by Ronald de Wild from ASTRON.

The programme for the week consists of a mixture of lectures and practical work on the related topics:

SIGNALS PART I – Basic Signal Processing



• Signals (part 1 of 2) classification ; representations; operations
• Transforms (part 1 of 3) [Continuous‐Time] Fourier Transform
• Signals (part 2 of 2) sampling; quantisation
• Transforms (part 2 of 3) Discrete‐Time Fourier Transform (DTFT) & Z‐Transform
• Systems (part 1 of 3) general: characterisation; properties; behaviour
• Systems (part 2 of 3) specific: LTI  digital filters: classification; analysis; synthesis
• Transforms (part 3 of 3) Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) & Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)