
Chapter 1
Introduction and Organization
1.1 Why Do You Need This Book?
I
F you want to learn about real-time
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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