Chapter 1
Introducing Signals and Systems
In This Chapter
Figuring out the math you need for signals and systems work
Determining the different types of signals and systems
Understanding signal classifications and domains
Checking out possible products with behavioral level modeling
Looking at real products as signals and systems
Using open-source computer tools to check your work
Which came first: the signal or the system? Before you answer, you may want to know that by system, I mean a structure or design that operates on signals. You live and breathe in a sea of signals, and systems harness signals and put them to work. So which came first, you think? It may not really matter, but I’m guessing — as I smooth out a long imaginary philosopher-type beard — that signals came first and then began passing through systems.
But I digress. The study of signals and systems as portrayed in ...
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