Book excerpt: Intended as a text for three courses—Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and DSP Architecture—this comprehensive book, now in its Second Edition, continues to provide a thorough understanding of digital signal processing, beginning from the fundamentals to the implementation of algorithms on a digital signal processor. This Edition includes a new chapter on Continuous Time Signals and Systems, and many Assembly and C programs, which are useful to conduct a laboratory course in Digital Signal Processing. Besides, many existing chapters are modified substantially to widen the coverage of the book. Primarily designed for undergraduate students of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Information Technology, this text will also be useful as a supplementary text for advanced digital signal processing and real time digital signal processing courses of Postgraduate programmes. KEY FEATURES : Provides a large number of worked-out examples to strengthen the grasp of the concepts of digital signal processing. Explains the architecture, addressing modes and instructions of TMS 320C54XX fixed point DSP with assembly language and C programs. Includes MATLAB programs and exercises throughout the book. Offers review questions and multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter to help students test their understanding about the fundamentals of the subject. Contains MATLAB commands in Appendix.