Evaluation

Following the own guidelines of the degree students shall be offered two evaluation systems: continuous evaluation or evaluation at the end of the semester.

CONTINUOUS EVALUATION

The continuous evaluation of the course will consist in:

• 5 practices developed on the DSP development board.These practices will account for 50% of the final grade.
• 1 project to be carried out in  group, that will account for 30% of the final grade.
• A written exam encompassing all the material  exposed in the classroom and in the laboratory. It will take place in the dates scheduled by the school. It will account for  20% of the final grade.

The final qualification of the student will be computed as a weighted sum (50%, 30% and 20%, respectively) of the qualifications of laboratory, group project and final exam. 

The contents and the weight of each continuous evaluation exercise are the following:

• Signal generation (10%)
• IIR filter programming (10%)
• Programming IIR filters with fixed point arithmetic. (10%)
• Frequency domain processing  (10%)
• Software defined radio  (10%)
• Project: (30%) 

EVALUATION AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER

Should a student decide not to be graded through continuous evaluation, he will have a written examination opportunity that will take place the same day of the final exam for all the students. The exam will cover all the material mastered in the classroom and the laboratory. Students should communicate their intention to renounce to be graded through continuous evaluation at least a week before the date of the final exam.

Students who do not pass the course at the end of the semester have an oportunity to retest on the end of the academic year. Previously to the exam, students will be asked to choose to be evaluated by continuous evaluation system or only by the final exam. In the former case, they will have the opportunity to improve the continous evaluation grade by means of redoing and improving selected practices.