EECS20N: Signals and Systems

Instructor Guide for Week 5

This week is devoted to composition of state machines. The deep concepts are synchrony, which gives a rigorous semantics to block diagrams, and feedback. The most useful concept to help subsequent material is that feedback loops with delays are always well formed.

Problem session

  • Chapter 2, exercises 10 and 11 (assigned last week).
  • Chapter 3, exercises 10 and 11 (not in the reader).
  • Chapter 4, exercises 2 and 5.

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