Chapter 1
Introduction and Organization
1.1 Why Do You Need This Book?
IF you want to learn about real-time1 digital signal processing (DSP), this book can save you many hours of frustration and help you avoid countless dead ends. In the past, “bridging the gap” from theory to practice in this area has been challenging. We wrote this book to eliminate the impediments that were preventing our own and our colleagues’ students from learning about this fascinating subject. When these barriers are removed, as this book will do for you, we believe that you will find real-time DSP to be an exciting field that is relatively straightforward to understand. The expected background of the reader and the tools needed to get the most out of ...
