With a novel, less classical approach to the subject, the authors have written a book with the conviction that signal processing should be taught to be fun. The treatment is therefore less focused on the mathematics and more on the conceptual aspects, the idea being to allow the readers to think about the subject at a higher conceptual level, thus building the foundations for more advanced topics. The book remains an engineering text, with the goal of helping students solve real-world problems. In this vein, the last chapter pulls together the individual topics as discussed throughout the book into an in-depth look at the development of an end-to-end communication system, namely, a modem for communicating digital information over an analog channel.

Richly illustrated with examples and exercises in each chapter, the book offers a fresh approach to the teaching of signal processing to upper-level undergraduates.

Preface - What Is Digital Signal Processing? - Discrete-Time Signals - Signals and Hilbert Spaces - Fourier Analysis - Discrete-Time Filters - The Z-Transform - Filter Design - Stochastic Signal Processing - Interpolation and Sampling - A/D and D/A Conversions - Multirate Signal Processing - Design of a Digital Communication System - Index.

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This book unites an international team of leading researchers and educators around the theme of knowledge dialogue.