Important Dates and general guidelines

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Important Dates and general guidelines

• Proposal submission Friday Oct 13th 2006 to SCoT
  Counter
• Dissertation submission date Friday 19th January
  2007
• Oral Examinations Complete by 1st February 2007
• Liaison with supervisor mandatory at least once
  every week for update, discussion and guidance
• Lecture must be informed before non-attendance
  for any reason using either email or call to SCoT
  counter
• Project is students responsibility to expedite,
  time-manage, innovate, collate results, etc
  write-up and submit
• Lecturer in a supervisory and advisory role

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MSc Computer Systems Engineering

• Dissertation Presentations
• Tutor A A Chanerley
• 0208 223 7582
• email andrew2_at_uel.ac.uk

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ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC DATA

• Earthquake data from the USA, China, India,
  Turkey, Iceland etc
• Main areas of seismic activity
• Recorded data needs de-trending, filtering and
  de-convoluted

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Independent Component Analysis

• Called the cocktail party problem
• ICA consists of estimating the matrix A
• find inverse of A
• Which leads to an estimate of si(t) the sources
  in the cocktail party

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Independent Component Analysis
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IC Design using Mentor Graphics

• Using CAD tools
• schematic capture
• hardware description language (VHDL)
• Designing Digital Filters
• Fixed and Floating point multipliers

• Can use FPGAs
• or send for manufacture to a silicon foundry,
  usually IMEC