1st Edition

Applied Signal Processing Concepts, Circuits, and Systems

By Nadder Hamdy Copyright 2009
    554 Pages 445 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Classical signal processing techniques are based primarily on the analog nature of all signals. However, the continuously improving performance of digital circuitry and processors has prompted a switch to digital signal processing techniques rather than the traditional analog ones.

    Applied Signal Processing recognizes the linkage between the two paradigms and presents a unified treatment of both subjects (analog and digital signal processing) in one authoritative volume. It introduces underlying principles, basic concepts, and definitions as well as classic and contemporary designs of signal processing systems. The author includes a detailed description of data converters, an interface between the real world of analog signals and the artificial world of digital signals. He provides a concise presentation of topics by limiting the number of complex equations and using lucid language. Numerous real-world application examples are featured within each chapter including architectures from Texas Instruments, Motorola, and Analog Devices.

    With its compounded coverage of both analog and digital signal processing techniques, this book provides engineers with the knowledge they need to understand the analog basis of modern digital signal processing techniques and construct architectures for modern systems.  

    Introduction
    What are Signals?
    Signal parameters
    Why Signal processing?
    Analog vs. Digital Signal processing
    Practical Signal processing Systems
    Analog Signal Processing
    Amplitude Shaping
    Frequency Spectrum Shaping
    Phase Errors Correction
    Waveform Generation
    Analog Filter Design
    Describing Equations
    Design Procedures
    Filter Specifications
    Approximations to the Ideal Response
    Realization
    Practical RC-Filters Design
    Switched Capacitor Filter Realization
    Design examples
    Data Converters
    Introduction
    A typical DSP System
    Specifications of Data Converters
    Sampling
    Sample and Hold Circuits
    Quantization
    Basic Quantization Techniques
    Digital to Analog Converters
    Analog Comparators
    Basic ADC Architectures
    Practical High-Speed, High- Resolution ADC’s
    Testing of Data Converters
    Examples
    Digital Signal Processing
    Why Digital Signal processing?
    Some Practical DSP Application Examples
    Some Basic DSP Operations
    The Z- Transform
    Digital Filters
    Digital Filter Design
    Design Procedures
    Design of FIR Filters
    Approximations for FIR filters
    The windowing Method
    The Optimal Method
    The Frequency Sampling Method
                              The Least Pth-norm Optimal Method
    Realization Topologies
    Design examples
                              Design of IIR Filters
                Stability Test 
                Realization Topologies
                Approximations for IIR filters
                The Invariant-Impulse Response Method
    The Bilinear Transform Method
    The Least Pth-Norm Optimal Method
    Effect of Finite Word Length Arithmetic
    Multi-Rate Signal processing
    Introduction
    Decimation
    Interpolation
    Fractional sampling rate change
    Cascaded decimation / interpolation
     
    Discrete Transforms
    The Discrete Fourier Transform
    The Inverse Fourier Transform
    Properties of the Fourier Transform
    The FFT Algorithm
    Some other Transforms
    The Wavelet Transform
    Digital Signal processors
    Basic Architecture of a DSP Processor
    Features of a Digital Signal Processor
    Hardware Implementation of some basic DSP operations
    Examples of practical DSP processors
    Digital –Signal Processing Systems
    Data Acquisition Systems
    Telemetry
    Pattern Recognition
    Data Compression
    Biometrics
    Watermarking
    Active Noise Control   

    Biography

    Nadder Hamdy