Digital Signal Processing 101
Everything you need to know to get started
By- Michael Parker, Senior DSP Technical Marketing Manager, Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA, USA
DSP is utilized in just about every electronic system or device. DSP is taking one piece of information be it data, image, video, or audio, most likely compressing, sending, and filtering it to another location within your application to appear in the form of a document, picture or video.
Like Smith before it, this book is different to most on the market by following a popular applied approach to this tricky subject, and will be the perfect starting point for engineers who need to get into DSP from the ground floor. This book starts with the absolute basics of this integral process.
No experience is expected and with no prior knowledge taken for granted, a refresher chapter on complex numbers and trigonometry can be found at the very beginning of the material. Real-world worked examples, reference designs, and tools - including online applets that enable readers to visualize key principles - complete a package that will help engineers who that needs to learn anew or refresh their memory on this essential technology as they move to projects that require DSP familiarity.
Audience
Electrical engineers, software engineers, hardware engineers, system engineers and students with no DSP experience
Paperback, 264 Pages
Published: April 2010
Imprint: Newnes
ISBN: 978-1-85617-921-8
Reviews
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"Signal processing involves a lot more than any author can cover in 275 pages, so realize you will need some additional tutorial information available in online or printed references. Overall, though, this book provides a good starting point for people who need a quick introduction to DSP." - reviewed in Design News
Contents
- Numerical Representation
- Complex Numbers and Exponentials
- Sampling, Aliasing, and Quantization
- Frequency Response
- Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Filters
- Windowing
- Decimation and Interpolation
- Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) Filters
- Complex Modulation and Demodulation
- Discrete and Fast Fourier Transforms (DFT, FFT)
- Numerically Controlled Oscilators
- Digital Up and Down Conversion
- Error Corrective Coding
- CDMA Modulation and Demodulation
- OFDM Modulation and Demodulation
- Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)
- Video and Image Processing
- Video Compression and Decompression
- Implementation Using Digital Signal Processors
- Implementation Using FPGAs
- Design and Debug Methodology Trends
- Future Implementation Trends
Appendix A: Q Format Shift with Fractional Multiplication
Appendix B: Evaluation of FIR Design Error Minimization
Appendix C: Laplace Transform
Appendix D: Z Transform

