EE313 Linear Systems and Signals - Matlab Help

Some of the problems will require to use a computer tool, such as Matlab, to solve it. You either use the Matlab program itself, or use the Mathscript functionality in LabVIEW. The Mathscript functionality in LabVIEW implements core functions in Matlab and a few signal processing functions. These functions will be almost all you'll need for the lecture and lab components for this course.

Please see locally developed materials to help you use Matlab in EE 445S:

Brian L. Evans, "Signals", which are slides that provide Matlab code to define and plot basic signals in continuous time and discrete time
Brian L. Evans, "Introduction to Computation in Matlab", handout on using Matlab for EE 445S
Rayan Jaber and Jeffrey Andrews, "Getting Started with Matlab" (slides)

Here are excellent Matlab tutorials:

MATLAB Tutorials, Division of Statistics and Scientific Computing, The University of Texas at Austin
"Learning MATLAB 7", The MathWorks Inc.

The following Matlab tutorial books are useful references:

Duane C. Hanselman and Bruce Littlefield, Mastering MATLAB 7, Prentice Hall, 2005.
Duane C. Hanselman and Bruce Littlefield, Mastering MATLAB 8, Prentice Hall, 2011.

To add a directory of Matlab functions to the Matlab search path, please use

addpath(directory);

The directory would be enclosed in single quotes, e.g.

addpath('C:\Documents and Settings\SANL\My Documents\SRD-MatlabFiles');

See help path for more information.

The following additional Matlab commands may be useful:

cd: change directories (without an argument, it prints the working directory)
dir: lists the contents of the current working directory
pwd: prints working directory

To use Matlab remotely on a Linux workstation, you will need to install

PuTTY, terminal emulator for remote login
Xming, X windows emulator

When running PuTTY within X windows, it is helpful to enable forwarding of X windows settings.

Linux workstations available for remote login

Once logged into a remote workstation, here are the commands to run Matlab:

module load matlab
matlab &

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