Introduction to Digital Signal Processing and Filter Design

PREFACE

This preface is addressed to instructors as well as students at the junior–senior level for the following reasons. I have been teaching courses on digital signal processing, including its applications and digital filter design, at the undergraduate and the graduate levels for more than 25 years. One common complaint I have heard from undergraduate students in recent years is that there are not enough numerical problems worked out in the chapters of the book prescribed for the course. But some of the very well known textbooks on digital signal processing have more problems than do a few of the books published in earlier years. However, these books are written for students in the senior and graduate levels, and hence the junior-level students find that there is too much of mathematical theory in these books. They also have concerns about the advanced level of problems found at the end of chapters. I have not found a textbook on digital signal processing that meets these complaints and concerns from junior-level students. So here is a book that I have written to meet the junior students' needs and written with a student-oriented approach, based on many years of teaching courses at the junior level.

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