 | Although DSP has long been considered an EE topic, recent developments have also generated signifi cant interest from the computer science community. DSP applications in the consumer market, such as bioinformatics, the MP3 audio format, and MPEG-based cable/satellite television have fueled a desire to understand this technology outside of hardware circles. Designed for upper division engineering and computer science students as well as practicing engineers, Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB and Wavelets emphasizes the practical applications of signal processing. Over 100 MATLAB examples and wavelet techniques provide the latest applications of DSP, including image processing, games, fi lters, transforms, networking, parallel processing, and sound. The book also provides the mathematical processes and techniques needed to ensure an understanding of DSP theory. Designed to be incremental in diffi culty, the book will benefi t readers who are unfamiliar with complex mathematical topics or those limited in programming experience. Beginning with an introduction to MATLAB programming, it moves through filters, sinusoids, sampling, the Fourier transform, the z-transform and other key topics. An entire chapter is dedicated to the discussion of wavelets and their applications. A CD-ROM (platform independent) accompanies the book and contains source code, projects for each chapter, and the fi gures contained in the book. FEATURES:
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or back.
But why can we do this?
Where does 
come from? What does j really mean? These
questions and more will be answered in this chapter. Along the
way, we have a few important concepts about DSP, including how a
complex number can be thought of as a vector on the complex plane (instead of a real
number on the real number line), how such a vector can rotate,
how we can go between alternate
representations of the same information (such as polar coordinates
versus Cartesian ones), and how some representations are more
suitable for mathematical manipulations than others.
