Digital Signal Processing, 10th Edition

Preface

In signal processing, digital techniques offer a fantastic range of possibilities: rigorous system design, flexibility, reproducibility of equipment, stability of operating features, and ease of supervision and monitoring. However, there is a certain amount of abstractness in these techniques, and, in order to apply them to real-world cases, we need a set of theoretical knowledge, which may represent an obstacle to their use. This book aims to break down the barriers and make digital techniques accessible to readers by drawing the connection between theory and practice and providing users with the most widely used results in the domain, at their fingertips.

The foundation upon which this book is built is the author’s teaching at engineering schools – first the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications and the Institut supérieur d’électronique de Paris, and later, Supélec and CNAM. The book offers a clear and concise presentation of the main techniques used in digital processing, comparing them on their merits and giving the most useful results in a form that is directly usable, both for the design and for the concrete implementation of systems. Theoretical explanations have been condensed to what is absolutely necessary for a thorough understanding and a correct application of the results. Bibliographic references are provided, where interested readers will find further information about the topics discussed herein. At the end of each chapter are a few exercises, ...