Until this year.

The urge to move forward was simply too strong. After several successful years of running...]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:59:19 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1757.php The countdown is on! The inaugural Signal Processing Summit is just weeks away, and excitement is building. With only 70 seats available, the Summit is intentionally designed to be intimate, giving attendees a rare chance to learn, connect, and exchange ideas with some of the most respected minds in DSP.

To make it even easier for you to secure your spot with confidence, we’re...]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:48:01 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1754.php I am extremely excited to announce that registration is officially open for the inaugural Signal Processing Summit (SPS)!

The Summit will take place from October 14-16, 2025, in the heart of Silicon Valley at the Sonesta Silicon Valley.

The SPS is designed to be a catalyst for your Signal Processing career: a concentrated three-day event created by engineers, for engineers. You’ll...]]> Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:11:44 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1752.php We’re excited to announce that the Call for Speakers for the very first Signal Processing Summit taking place October 14-16, 2025 in Silicon Valley is now officially open!

If you have real-world experience solving signal processing problems and want to share practical, actionable insights with a room full of fellow signal processing engineers, we’d love to hear from you.

Whether your...]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:20:30 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1749.php After 25 years of running DSPRelated and more recently, co-organizing the DSP Online Conference, I've never been more excited to share an announcement: we're going in-person!

That's right! We strongly believe this DSP community is ripe for a face-to-face gathering. Our very first in-person conference will be held in Silicon Valley from October 14-16, 2025.

This won’t be just another...]]> Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:34:22 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1705.php Here we go!

This week is the fifth edition of the DSP Online Conference! This milestone year marks our 5th anniversary, and we’re celebrating with a stellar lineup of renowned DSP experts like fred harris, Rick Lyons, Julius Orion Smith III, and Dan Boschen. These industry leaders will be generously sharing their knowledge and insights with the DSP community.

Unlike traditional DSP conferences, where most talks are highly specialized and tailored to researchers, our conference is designed to be accessible to a broader audience of DSP enthusiasts, from students and practicing engineers to hobbyists and...]]> Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:48:47 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1580.php In case you forget or didn't already know, registering for the 2023 DSP Online Conference automatically gives you 10 months of unlimited access to all sessions from previous editions of the conference.  So for the price of an engineering book, you not only get access to the upcoming 2023 DSP Online Conference but also to hours upon hours of on-demand DSP gold from some of the best...]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:12:26 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1516.php Although I generally agree that money can't buy happiness, I recently made a purchase that has brought me countless hours of pure joy. In this blog post, I want to share my excitement with the DSPRelated community, because I know there are many audio and music enthusiasts here, and also because I suspect there is a lot of DSP magic behind this product. And I would love to hear your opinions...]]> Wed, 24 May 2023 20:09:17 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1456/a-new-related-site-mlrelated We are delighted to announce the launch of the very first new Related site in 15 years!  The new site will be dedicated to the trendy and quickly growing field of Machine Learning and will be called - drum roll please - MLRelated.com.

We think MLRelated fits perfectly well within the “Related” family, with:

• the fast growth of TinyML, which is a topic of great interest to the...]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:43:28 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1420.php The 2021 DSP Online Conference is just around the corner and this year again, the program is packed with opportunities for DSP engineers to refresh their DSP skills and learn a few new tricks along the way. 

  By registering for the conference, not only will you have full access to all talks, workshops, and Q&A sessions at this year's event, but you'll also gain instant...]]> Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:36:06 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1370.php It is Sunday night as I write this blog post with a few days to go before the virtual doors of the very first DSP Online Conference open..

  It all started with a post in the DSPRelated forum about three months ago.  We had just had a blast running the 2020 Embedded Online Conference and we thought it...]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:14:05 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1321/an-online-conference-for-dsp-fpga-machine-learning-and-embedded-systems-engineers Chances are you already know, through the newsletter or banners on the Related sites, about the upcoming Embedded Online Conference.

  Chances are you also already know that you have until the end of the month of February to register for free. 

  And chances are that you are one of the more than 3000 pro-active engineers who have already registered.

  But If you are like me and have...]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:10:16 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1244/free-goodies-from-embedded-world-full-inventory Chances are that you already know that I went to Embedded World a few weeks ago and came back with a bag full of "goodies".  Initially, my vision was to do a single draw for one person to win it all, but I didn't expect to come back with so much stuff and so many development kits.   Based on your feedback, it seems like you guys agree that It wouldn't make sense for one person...]]> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:11:43 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1234/free-goodies-at-embedded-world-what-to-do I told you I would go on a hunt for free stuff at Embedded World in order to build a bundle for someone to win.

  ]]> Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:11:27 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1233/embedded-world-2019-live-streaming-report When the idea of live-streaming parts of Embedded World came to me,  I got so excited that I knew I had to make it happen.  I perceived the opportunity as a win-win-win-win.  

  • win #1 - Engineers who could not make it to Embedded World would be able to sample the huge event, 
  • win #2 - The organisation behind EW would benefit from the extra exposure
  • win #3 -...]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:03:25 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1232/spread-the-word Do you have a Twitter and/or Linkedin account?

    If you do, please consider paying close attention for the next few days to the EmbeddedRelated Twitter account and to my personal Linkedin account (feel free to connect).  This is where I will be posting lots of updates about how the EmbeddedRelated.tv live streaming experience is going at Embedded World.

    The most...]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:37:35 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1231/launch-of-embeddedrelated-tv With the upcoming Embedded Word just around the corner, I am very excited to launch the EmbeddedRelated.tv platform.  

    This is where you will find the schedule for all the live broadcasts that I will be doing from Embedded World next week.  Please note that the schedule will be evolving constantly, even during the show, so I suggest your refresh the page...]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:00:12 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1227/embedded-world-2019-going-live For those of you who won't be attending Embedded World this year, I will try to be your eyes and ears by video streaming live from the show floor.   

    I am not talking improvised streaming from a phone, but real, high quality HD streaming with a high-end camera and a device that will bond three internet connections (one wifi and two cellular) to ensure a steady, and hopefully...]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:36:39 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1226/what-to-see-at-embedded-world-2019 ]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:20:13 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1187/sensors-expo-my-story This was my first time at Sensors Expo and my second time in Silicon Valley and I must say I had a great time.  

    Before I share with you what I find to be, by far, my best 'highlights' video yet for a conference/trade show, let me try to entertain you with a few anecdotes from this trip.  If you are not interested by my stories or maybe don't have the...]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2018 20:30:32 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1169/who-else-is-going-to-sensors-expo-in-san-jose This will be my first time attending this show and I must say that I am excited. I am bringing with me my cameras and other video equipment with the intention to capture as much footage as possible and produce a (hopefully) fun to watch 'highlights' video. I will also try to film as many demos as possible and share them with you.

    I enjoy going to shows like this one as it gives me the...]]> Tue, 29 May 2018 15:15:57 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1154/upcoming-articles-maybe Many of you have the knowledge and talent to write technical articles that would benefit the EE community.  What is missing for most of you though, and very understandably so, is the time and motivation to do it.   

    But what if you could make some money to compensate for your time spent on writing the article(s)?  Would some of you find the motivation and...]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:17:50 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1148/embedded-world-2018-more-videos After the interview videos last week, this week I am very happy to release two more videos taken at Embedded World 2018 and that I am proud of.  

    For both videos, I made extensive use of my two new toys, a Zhiyun Crane Gimbal and a Sony a6300 camera.

    The use of a gimbal like the Zhiyun makes a big difference in terms of making the footage look much more stable and...]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:38:33 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1146/embedded-world-2018-interviews-demos Once again this year, I had the chance to go to Embedded World in Nuremberg Germany.  And once again this year, I brought my video equipment to try and capture some of the most interesting things at the show.  

    Something new this year, I asked Jacob Beningo if he would partner with me in doing interviews with a few vendors.  I would operate the camera while Jacob would...]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:25:14 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1082/finally-got-a-drone As a reader of my blog, you already know that I have been making videos lately and thoroughly enjoying the process.  When I was in Germany early this summer (and went 280 km/h in a porsche!) to produce SEGGER's 25th anniversary video, the company bought a drone so we could get an aerial shot of the party (at about the 1:35 mark in this video).  Since then, I have been...]]> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:10:27 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1071/segger-s-25th-anniversary-video Chances are you will find this video more interesting to watch if you take five minutes to first read the story of the week I spent at SEGGER's headquarters at the end of June.  

    The video is only a little more than 2 minutes long.  If you decide to watch it, make sure to go full screen and I would really love to read your thoughts about it in the comments down bellow.  Do...]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:11:37 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1062/280kmh_in_a_Porsche Those of you who've been following my blog lately already know that I am going through some sort of mid-life crisis that involves going out there to meet people and make videos.  It all started with Embedded World early this year, then continued at ESC Boston a couple of months ago and the latest chapter just concluded as I returned from...]]> Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:21:15 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1057/going-back-to-germany A couple of blog posts ago, I wrote that the decision to go to ESC Boston ended up being a great one for many different reasons.  I came back from the conference energized and really happy that I went.  

    These feelings were amplified a few days after my return when I received an email from Rolf Segger, the founder of SEGGER Microcontroller ( Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:22:24 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1054/esc-boston-s-videos-are-now-up In my last blog, I told you about my experience at ESC Boston and the few videos that I was planning to produce and publish.  Here they are, please have a look and any feedback (positive or negative) is appreciated. 

    Short Highlight

    This is a very short (one minute) montage of some of the footage that I shot at the show & conference.  In future shows, I absolutely need to...]]> Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:53:50 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1048/back-from-esc-boston NOT going to ESC Boston would have allowed me to stay home, in my comfort zone.

    NOT going to ESC Boston would have saved me from driving in the absolutely horrible & stressful Boston traffic1.

    NOT going to ESC Boston would have saved me from having to go through a full search & questioning session at the Canada Customs on my return2.

    Sun, 07 May 2017 00:40:31 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1042/launch-of-youtube-channel-my-first-videos-embedded-world-2017 I went to Embedded World 2017 in Nuremberg with an ambitious plan; I would make video highlights of several exhibits (booths) to be presented to the *Related sites audience.  I would try to make the vendors focus their pitch on the essential in order to produce a one to three minutes video per booth.

    So far my experience with making videos was limited to family videos, so I knew I had...]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:27:00 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/1003.php I thought it would take me a day or two to implement, it took almost two weeks...

    But here it is, the new comments systems for blogs, heavily inspired by the forum system I developed earlier this year.  

    Which means that:

    • You can easily add images, either by drag and drop or through the 'Insert Image' button
    • You can add MathML, TeX and ASCIImath equations and they will be rendered with...]]> Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:15:57 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/930/3-good-news Last week, I announced a new and ambitious reward program that will be funded by the new Vendors Directory.

      This week, I am happy to announce that we have our firsts two sponsors!  Quantum Leaps & Abelon Systems have agreed to pay the sponsorship fee to be...]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:12:03 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/913/welcome-to-the-new-forum After months of hard word, I am very excited to introduce to you the new forum interface.  

      Here are the key features:

      1- Easily add images to a post by drag & dropping the images in the editor

      2- Easily attach files to a post by drag & dropping the files in the editor

      3- Add latex equations to a post and they will be rendered with Mathjax ( Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:31:48 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/849/breaking-the-ice Breaking the ice can be tough.  Over the years, many individuals have asked to be given access to the blogging interface only to never post an article.  Maybe they underestimated the time it takes to write a decent article, or maybe they got cold feet. I don't blame or judge them at all - how many times in my life have I had the intention to do...]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:16:19 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/837.php The response to the latest call for bloggers has been amazing and I am very grateful.

      In this post I present to you the individuals who, so far (I am still receiving applications at an impressive rate and will update this page as more bloggers are added),  have been given access to the blogging interface.  I am very pleased with the positive response and I...]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:28:04 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/815/recruiting-new-bloggers Previous calls for bloggers have been very successful in recruiting some great communicators - Rick Lyons, Jason Sachs, Victor Yurkovsky, Mike Silva, Markus Nentwig,  Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:17:01 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/788.php Chances are that by now, you have had a chance to browse the new design of the *related site that I published several weeks ago.  I have been working for several months on this and I must admit that I am very happy with the results.  This new design will serve as a base for many new exciting developments. I would love to hear your comments/suggestions if you have any, please use the...]]> Mon, 25 May 2015 16:11:17 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/733.php Scott Kurtz from DSPSoundWare.com has put together a video presentation that aims to help DSPers gain a better intuitive understanding of the Sampling Theorem.   Feel free to have a look and share your thoughts by commenting this blog post.

      ]]> Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:50:43 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/584.php I was browsing the ECE subreddit lately and found that some of the most popular posts over the last few months have been animated GIFs helping understand some mathematical concepts.  I thought there would be some value in aggregating the DSP related gifs on one page.  
      The relationship between sin, cos, and right triangles: Constructing a square wave...]]> Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:26:55 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/556.php I have two news to share with you today.

      The first one is that I finally created Facebook pages for DSPRelated.com and EmbeddedRelated (DSPRelated page - EmbeddedRelated page). For a long time I didn't feel that this was something that was needed, but it seems that these days more and more people are using their Facebook account to stay updated with their favorite websites. In any event, if you...]]> Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:31:57 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/195.php You are invited to contribute to the content of this blog post through the magic of Google Docs' real time collaboration feature.

      I discovered this tool several months ago when I was looking for a way to coordinate our annual family halloween party (potluck) and avoid the very unpleasant situation of ending up with too much chips and not enough chocolate (first world problem!).  It was...]]> Thu, 30 May 2013 20:40:29 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/188.php Hello!

      It's been a while since you've heard from me - and there are many reasons why:

      1 - I've made a clown of myself (video here)

      2 - I've been working on unifying the user management system.  You can now participate to the three related sites (DSPRelated, FPGARelated and EmbeddedRelated) with only one account (same login info). 

      3- I've been working on getting up to...]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:56:07 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/313/two-jobs For those of you following closely embeddedrelated and the other related sites, you might have noticed that I have been less active for the last couple of months, and I will use this blog post to explain why. The main reason is that I got myself involved into a project that ended up using a better part of my cpu than I originally thought it would.

      edit - video of the event:

      Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:52:05 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/179.php I have just finished implementing a new comments system for the blogs.  Do you like it?

      Please share your thoughts with me by adding a comment.

      I'll wait a few days and make sure it works properly and then I'll port it to the code snippets and papers section.

      Thanks!

      ]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:29:15 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/137.php As you may already know, there is a 'Papers and Theses' section on DSPRelated:http://www.dsprelated.com/documents.phpThere are hundreds of DSP Related documents (articles, papers, theses, dissertations, etc) scattered all around the web, and the goal with this section is to find and list as many of those documents as possible in one place. There are, at the moment, a little over 100 documents...]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:32:39 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/129.php Despite being only a couple of months old, the Code Snippet section ( DSPRelated.com/code.php ) already contains tens of snippets, thanks to the contributors who have taken the time to share their code. 

      But let's not stop here - there is room for several hundreds more snippets before the database can be said to cover a decent portion of the DSP field.  

      To keep the...]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:57:52 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/125.php As you may already know, Rick Lyons has just published a new edition of his highly acclaimed book: "Understanding Digital Signal Processing".   This book has been getting very high ratings and positive reviews from the DSP community since the publication of the first edition.  The 3rd edition seems to contain more than enough new material to...]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:40:19 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/118.php The new code sharing section is now live and can be accessed HERE.  

      Please take a few minutes to rate and/or comment the snippets that you have the expertise to judge.

      If you think of some code snippets that you would like to share with the DSP community, please apply to become a contributor HERE.

      If you are not aware of the reward program for contributors, your can learn about it...]]> Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:28:19 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/109.php UPDATE (11/02/2010): The code section is now live.

      UPDATE 2 (01/31/2011): The reward program has changed.  A flat fee of $20 per code snippet submitted will now be paid.  

      _______________

      I am very happy to finally announce the imminent launch of the new code sharing section.  My vision for this new section is a rich library of high quality code snippets for the DSP...]]> Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:48:45 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/92.php In my last post, I wrote that DSPRelated.com was about to reach the 50,000 members mark.  Well, I am very happy to announce that it happened during the holidays, and the lucky person is Charlie Tsai from Taiwan.  Charlie is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Central University in Taiwan where he teaches the "Biomedical Signal...]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:22:13 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/90.php I am very happy to announce that DSPRelated.com will reach the 50,000 registered members mark before the end of 2009. To celebrate this milestone, I will buy a BMW 5 to the 50,000th person to register (please make sure to confirm you email address to activate your registration).  Please read the fine prints after the picture.

      CloudFront service for the delivery of most static content on DSPRelated.com (images, javascripts, css).   The cloudFront service...]]> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:46:35 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/47.php The new 'Papers & Theses' section is now online: http://www.dsprelated.com/documents.phpThe idea is to list and organize in one place as many DSP related dissertations (PhD & Masters) and papers/articles as possible.If you are the author of a thesis or paper and would like to have it listed on DSPRelated.com, please follow these steps:- Make sure that you are allowed to share the ...]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:58:14 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/23.php By now, chances are you have noticed the new blogs section (you are actually in it right now!).

      Following an email I sent to the members of the site, a few weeks ago, asking for dsp engineers willing to blog here, I received around 50 propositions. I have selected an initial set of 10 bloggers (that I will soon introduce into a seperate post) and I am currently in the process of creating...]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:06:42 +0000 Stephane Boucher https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/9.php I have just created a new discussion group for engineers implementing DSP functions on FPGAs. The creation of this group has been on my todo list for a long time. If you want to join the group, send a blank email to: fpgadsp-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

      As usual, it should take a few weeks before there are enough members for interesting discussions to get...]]> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:25:59 +0000 Stephane Boucher