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Some Thoughts on Sampling

Qasim Chaudhari

Some time ago, I came across an interesting problem. In the explanation of sampling process, a representation of impulse sampling shown in Figure 1 below is illustrated in almost every textbook on DSP and communications. The question is: how is...


Matlab Code to Synthesize Multiplierless FIR Filters

Neil Robertson

This article presents Matlab code to synthesize multiplierless Finite Impulse Response (FIR) lowpass filters. A filter coefficient can be represented as a sum of powers of 2.  For example, if a coefficient = decimal 5 multiplies input x,...


Wavelets II - Vanishing Moments and Spectral Factorization

Vincent Herrmann

In the previous blog post I described the workings of the Fast Wavelet Transform (FWT) and how wavelets and filters are related. As promised, in this article we will see how to construct useful filters. Concretely, we will find a way to calculate...


The Power Spectrum

Neil Robertson

Often, when calculating the spectrum of a sampled signal, we are interested in relative powers, and we don't care about the absolute accuracy of the y axis. However, when the sampled signal represents an analog signal, we sometimes need an accurate picture of the analog signal's power in the frequency domain. This post shows how to calculate an accurate power spectrum.


New Comments System (please help me test it)

Stephane Boucher

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...


Wavelets I - From Filter Banks to the Dilation Equation

Vincent Herrmann

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts about wavelets, particularly about the Fast Wavelet Transform (FWT). The FWT is extremely useful in practice and also very interesting from a theoretical point of view. Of course there...


The Real Star of Star Trek

Rick Lyons

Unless you've been living under a rock recently, you're probably aware that this month is the 50-year anniversary of the original Star Trek show on American television. It's an anniversary worth noting, as did Time Magazine with their special...


An s-Plane to z-Plane Mapping Example

Rick Lyons

While surfing around the Internet recently I encountered the 's-plane to z-plane mapping' diagram shown in Figure 1. At first I thought the diagram was neat because it's a good example of the old English idiom: "A picture is worth a thousand...


Should DSP Undergraduate Students Study Z-transform Regions of Convergence?

Rick Lyons

Not long ago I presented my 3-day DSP class to a group of engineers at Tektronix Inc. in Beaverton Oregon [1]. After I finished covering my material on IIR filters' z-plane pole locations and filter stability, one of the Tektronix engineers asked...


Use DPLL to Lock Digital Oscillator to 1PPS Signal

Michael Morris

Introduction There are occasions where it is desirable to lock a digital oscillator to an external time reference such as the 1PPS (One Pulse Per Second) signal output from a GPS receiver. One approach would be to synchronize a fixed frequency...