During this course, we learn about signals and systems.

From frequency spectra to

Fourier transform. In this project, the purpose is to recover a signal x1(t) from the
sum of 3 signals [x1(t), x2(t) & x3(t)]. Each one
multiplied by a cosine that will have parts
shifted. First of all, we have 3 signals. A sinc
function that is elaborated in Scilab to pass it
to Xcos [10sinc (10t)], a sawtooth generator
and a pulse generator. To make it all band
limited signals, we needed to pass them

Fig.1.1 - Oppenheim. Signals and Systems.

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through a LPF (low pass filter) before have the sum of all. Then, each signal got
multiplied by a cosine with a different frequency to get the parts of the new signal.
Next, we added all the signals to get the new one as we see in Fig.1.1

The filters used in the project were Low Pass Filters. Low Pass Filters pass signals
with a frequency lower than a cutoff frequency and reject signals with frequencies
higher that the cutoff frequency.

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Fig.1.3- a) Sinc function before and after the LPF. B) Pulse
before and after the LPF. C) Sawtooth before and after the
LPF.
The principal problem of this project is to get the first one signal back of the sum of
the signals; taking into account the frequencies in which they are to apply a filter and

Fig.1.4- Block Diagram to recover the first signal [Sinc]

obtain the pair of the first signal. In this case, we propose a LPF and then, we needed
to apply other LPF to just get the middle part and obtain the initial signal.

In Fig1.4, after the sum of signals pass through the LPF, we needed to multiply by a
cosine to obtain the shifted parts of the sinc function. One important thing to know is
that Xcos cant plot the negative part of the sinc. When we have the shifted parts,
we just need the initial signal. So, we apply another LPF to recover with a gain of 2
and that will be the implementation for the solution.

Fourier transforms are important in signal processing. At the end of the course, we
learn that is a powerful mathematical tool that allows us to view the domain of the
signals and change the domains. It does not matter if is a periodic or aperiodic signal,
we can know the frequencies presents and a lot of information about a phenomena.