This textbook provides an introduction to the study of digital signal
processing, employing a top-to-bottom structure to motivate the reader,
a graphical approach to the solution of the signal processing
mathematics, and extensive use of MATLAB.
In contrast to the conventional teaching approach, the book offers a
top-down approach which first introduces students to digital filter
design, provoking questions about the mathematical tools required. The
following chapters provide answers to these questions, introducing
signals in the discrete domain, Fourier analysis, filters in the time
domain and the Z-transform. The author introduces the mathematics in a
conceptual manner with figures to illustrate the physical meaning of the
equations involved.
Chapter six builds on these concepts and discusses advanced filter
design, and chapter seven discusses matters of practical implementation.
This book introduces the corresponding MATLAB functions and programs in
every chapter with examples, and the final chapter introduces the actual
real-time filter from MATLAB.
Aimed primarily at undergraduate students in electrical and electronic
engineering, this book enables the reader to implement a digital filter
using MATLAB.
Deliver the conceptual knowledge of digital signal processing with
extensive use of the illustrations from practical viewpoint. Also, the
digital signal processing is initiated from the digital not from the
continuous domain.
