TSDT18 · 6 credits · Basic level (G2F) · Elektroteknik, Medicinsk teknik
Signals and Systems
Active · next start HT 2026
80%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 14 Jan 2026 · 85 students
83%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 507 students
42%
Harder than 42% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 177 students.
Part of 3 programmes
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
83% passed · 507 students
- 80%85
- 85%92
- 80%100
- 92%113
- 78%117
Re-exams
67% passed · 129 students
- 86%7
- 67%15
- 89%18
- 20%5
- 87%15
- 33%12
- 57%14
- 42%12
- 77%31
- Pass the re-exam: 67% (129 students), compared with 83% (507 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 49% (636 students)
Show small sittings (2)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 67%3
- 100%1
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 503 students
- 100%84
- 100%96
- 100%104
- 100%109
- 100%110
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
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- 100%1
- 100%1
- 100%2
About the course
Aim
The course will give fundamental knowledge about analysis and synthesis of continuous-time and discrete-time linear systems, primarily through the use of mathematical tools from transform theory. After completing the course the student should be able to
- analyse and perform calculations on continuous-time signals and linear systems.
- analyse and perform calculations on discrete-time signals and linear systems, including sampling and reconstruction.
- use knowledge and skills from learning outcomes 1 and 2 to solve, with computer assistance, various problems in continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems.
Content
- About signals and systems.
- System properties – in particular linearity, time invariance, causality and stability.
- Impulse response and step response. Convolution.
- Differential and difference equation description of linear continuous-time and discrete-time systems, respectively.
- Frequency analysis of signals and systems. Frequency spectrum, amplitude and phase spectrum. Frequency response. Magnitude and phase characteristics.
- About passive frequency-selective filters.
- Laplace transform and z-transform analysis of signals and systems. The transfer function. Pole-zero diagrams.
- Cascade couplings and feedback.
- Sampling and reconstruction – time properties and spectral relations. The Poisson summation formula, the sampling theorem and pulse amplitude modulation.
- Application examples.
- Examiner
- Lasse Alfredsson
- Scheduled hours
- 48 h
- Main field of study
- Elektroteknik, Medicinsk teknik