Signal Processing - General & Miscellaneous, DSPs
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Overview
In Digital Signal Processing Technology: Essentials of the Communications Revolution, Doug Smith, KF6DX, explains digital signal processing (DSP) concepts in a comprehensive, readable treatise focusing on communications technology. The work is sufficiently analytical for those skilled in math to fully understand DSP and its applications, while simultaneously affording those less mathematically inclined an understandable picture of this exciting technology. Presented from an engineering perspective, the material achieves a balance between theory and practice.Smith gives a complete discussion of contemporary DSP technology, with special emphasis on applications in communications. The author:- offers a brief history and an overview of its applications outside communications;
- explains how DSP gives us higher performance at lower cost;
- details digital sampling, including fundamental and harmonic sampling, aliasing and mechanisms at play in real data converters;
- makes clear how numbers are actually stored and manipulated;
- reviews the design of digital filters and their properties, including adaptive filters;
- examines the mathematics of modulation and demodulation, digital coding methods for speech and noise-reduction techniques, including Fourier transforms;
- explores the design of digital transceivers at the block-diagram, DSP hardware and software levels, including direct digital synthesis (DDS);
- highlights current DSP research that is likely to find its way into future radio systems, such as adaptive beamforming.
About the Author
Doug Smith is best known as Editor of QEX: Forum for Communications Experimenters, ARRL's bimonthly technical magazine. He also serves as Chair of the ARRL Digital Voice Working Group, focusing on advancements in digital audio over radio. Smith has published numerous articles in the Amateur Radio literature. He was the recipient of the 1998 ARRL Doug DeMaw Technical Excellence Award for his writing.
Synopsis
In Digital Signal Processing Technology: Essentials of the Communications Revolution, Doug Smith, KF6DX, explains digital signal processing (DSP) concepts in a comprehensive, readable treatise focusing on communications technology. The work is sufficiently analytical for those skilled in math to fully understand DSP and its applications, while simultaneously affording those less mathematically inclined an understandable picture of this exciting technology. Presented from an engineering perspective, the material achieves a balance between theory and practice.
Smith gives a complete discussion of contemporary DSP technology, with special emphasis on applications in communications. The author:- offers a brief history and an overview of its applications outside communications;
- explains how DSP gives us higher performance at lower cost;
- details digital sampling, including fundamental and harmonic sampling, aliasing and mechanisms at play in real data converters;
- makes clear how numbers are actually stored and manipulated;
- reviews the design of digital filters and their properties, including adaptive filters;
- examines the mathematics of modulation and demodulation, digital coding methods for speech and noise-reduction techniques, including Fourier transforms;
- explores the design of digital transceivers at the block-diagram, DSP hardware and software levels, including direct digital synthesis (DDS);
- highlights current DSP research that is likely to find its way into future radio systems, such as adaptive beamforming.
About the Author
Doug Smith is best known as Editor of QEX: Forum for Communications Experimenters, ARRL's bimonthly technical magazine. He also serves as Chair of the ARRL Digital Voice Working Group, focusing on advancements in digital audio over radio. Smith has published numerous articles in the Amateur Radio literature. He was the recipient of the 1998 ARRL Doug DeMaw Technical Excellence Award for his writing.
Booknews
This book offers an overview of contemporary Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology, and emphasizes applications of DSP in communications. It provides a brief history of DSP, outlines its advantages, reviews its design aspects, and explains how it works. Assuming no prior knowledge of DSP, it begins with basic concepts and works toward the more complex ideas. The technical treatments require only a working knowledge of algebra. Smith is a communications system designer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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From The Critics
This book offers an overview of contemporary Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology, and emphasizes applications of DSP in communications. It provides a brief history of DSP, outlines its advantages, reviews its design aspects, and explains how it works. Assuming no prior knowledge of DSP, it begins with basic concepts and works toward the more complex ideas. The technical treatments require only a working knowledge of algebra. Smith is a communications system designer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
January 1, 2001
Publisher
American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
Pages
236
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780872598195