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I need some advice...

I'm thinking about offering a senior design project in which students
would design and build an internal CD equalizer.  I would like to get
some feedback from people experienced with overseeing undergrads in
design projects about whether this is too much for a group of senior
EE's.  I would also appreciate any insight into the issues that will
have to be faced for this problem.  I have a good background in general
DSP, but I'm not much of a hardware person.  I expect to have around
ten undergrads working six hours a week for twenty weeks on the
problem.  Most will probably not have had a filter design course (it'll
be a corequisite).  Senior status in electrical engineering is the
basic prerequisite for this project.

The project would be to design and implement in hardware an equalizer
that takes the digital signal from the CD player, filters it according
to the equalizer settings, and feeds the digital output back through
the D/A in the CD player.  Any helpful advice would be greatly
appreciated.


Stan Reeves
Auburn University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Auburn, AL  36849
INTERNET: sjreeves@eng.auburn.edu