Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Practical Recipes for Design, Analysis and Implementation

Preface

Standard advice for writing a preface tells the author to begin by answering the question, “Why did you write this book?” The published answers almost always include an explanation of how something is still missing in the already vast body of existing literature, and how the book in question represents a valiant attempt to fill the void at least partially.

This book is no exception. There still is a dearth of good collections of step-by-step procedures, or recipes, for design and implementation of anything beyond just the most elementary DSP procedures. This book is an attempt to fill this void—at least partially. However, the tagline for this book is most definitely not meant to be, “Get a result without really gaining much understanding ...