EE313 Linear Systems and Signal - Matlab Help
Some of the problems will require to use a computer tool, such as
Matlab, to solve it.
For UT Austin students, the most convenient option for accessing Matlab is to
- Install the full version of Matlab on your laptop through the
university site license
- Follow the directions for
student licensing,
- Request a MathWorks account in the downloading step through UT ServiceNow,
- Follow the instructions on account creation directly from the email, and
- Choose at a minimum the DSP System Toolbox, Image Processing Toolbox,
and Signal Processing Toolbox during installation.
Here are other options:
- Buy the Matlab student edition for your local computer ($99)
- Run Matlab on a remote computer using an
Xwindows interface
- Run the Mathscript environment in the LabVIEW Real-Time Module
- Run GNU Octave
- Convert Matlab code to run in Python using numpy and scipy extensions
The Mathscript functionality in LabVIEW implements core functions
in Matlab and a few signal processing functions.
These functions should be all that you'll need for the course.
Helpful Slides and Tutorials
Please see locally developed materials to help you use Matlab in EE 445S:
- Brian L. Evans,
"Signals",
lecture slides from a signals and systems course that provide
Matlab code to define/plot basic signals in continuous/discrete time
- Brian L. Evans,
"Introduction to
Computation in Matlab",
Appendix B in the course reader
Here are excellent Matlab tutorials:
The following Matlab book might be a useful reference:
- Duane C. Hanselman and Bruce Littlefield,
Mastering MATLAB,
ISBN 9780136013303, Prentice Hall, 2011.
Another option for running Matlab remotely is to install
- PuTTY,
terminal emulator for remote login, and
- 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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