Digital Signal Processing Solutions
Papers
Fixed-Point Arithmetic and Algorithms
- Fixed-Point Arithmetic - An Introduction (Adobe Acrobat/PDF)
- Describes standard fixed-point binary number representations,
provides rules of fixed-point arithmetic for common operations
such as multiplication, defines concepts such as precision and range,
and provides an example of the analysis of a fixed-point algorithm.
- Author: Charles R. Yates
- Context: Web Resource.
- Practical Considerations in Fixed-Point FIR implementations (Adobe Acrobat/PDF)
- Discusses issues such as conversion of "real" coefficients into fixed-point representations
and techniques for requantizing filter outputs.
- Author: Charles R. Yates
- Context: Web Resource.
Quantization
- Christopher Hicks' excellent introductory article on noise-shaping (Postscript)
- "The Theory Of Dithered Quantization," Ph.D. thesis of Robert Wannamaker (Adobe Acrobat/PDF)
- "Principles of Sigma Delta Modulation for Analog-To-Digital Converters", a Motorola application note by Sangil Park, Ph.D. (Adobe Acrobat/PDF)
Coding Theory
- A Nordstrom-Robinson Error Correction Decoder (Postscript)
- Describes a hardware (FPGA) implementation of a code used in communication
systems to reduce probability of transmission errors.
- Authors: Charles R. Yates and Eric Sowers
- Context: IEEE SECON 1996 (Tampa, FL).
- Coding Theory and its Applications (Zipped Postscript)
- A very elementary introduction to coding theory. Introduces
Shannon's Noisy Coding Theorem, discrete memoryless channels,
linear codes, block codes, Galois Fields.
- Author: Charles R. Yates
- Context: Small research project required for mathematics degree
Digital Communications
- An introduction to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Ove Edfors et. al. (Adobe Acrobat/PDF)
- "MSK and its Application to Wireless Data Transmission," MX-COM Application Note (Adobe Acrobat/PDF)
Analog Communications Using DSP
Perceptual Coding
Last updated: 29-Oct-2005
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