The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to
Digital Signal Processing
By Steven W. Smith, Ph.D.
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Table of contents
- 1: The Breadth and Depth of DSP
- 2: Statistics, Probability and Noise
- 3: ADC and DAC
- 4: DSP Software
- 5: Linear Systems
- 6: Convolution
- 7: Properties of Convolution
- 8: The Discrete Fourier Transform
- 9: Applications of the DFT
- 10: Fourier Transform Properties
- 11: Fourier Transform Pairs
- 12: The Fast Fourier Transform
- 13: Continuous Signal Processing
- 14: Introduction to Digital Filters
- 15: Moving Average Filters
- 16: Windowed-Sinc Filters
- 17: Custom Filters
- 18: FFT Convolution
- 19: Recursive Filters
- 20: Chebyshev Filters
- 21: Filter Comparison
- 22: Audio Processing
- 23: Image Formation & Display
- 24: Linear Image Processing
- 25: Special Imaging Techniques
- 26: Neural Networks (and more!)
- 27: Data Compression
- 28: Digital Signal Processors
- 29: Getting Started with DSPs
- 30: Complex Numbers
- 31: The Complex Fourier Transform
- 32: The Laplace Transform
- 33: The z-Transform
- 34: Explaining Benford's Law
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Chapter 13: Continuous Signal Processing
Continuous signal processing is a parallel field to DSP, and most of the techniques are nearly identical. For example, both DSP and continuous signal processing are based on linearity, decomposition, convolution and Fourier analysis. Since continuous signals cannot be directly represented in digital computers, don't expect to find computer programs in this chapter. Continuous signal processing is based on mathematics; signals are represented as equations, and systems change one equation into another. Just as the digital computer is the primary tool used in DSP, calculus is the primary tool used in continuous signal processing. These techniques have been used for centuries, long before computers were developed.